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Re: How Verisign's SiteFinder service breaks Windows networking utilities
From: Justin <justin-fulldisclosure () soze net>
Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2003 00:27:43 +0000
Richard M. Smith (2003-09-20 20:17Z) wrote:
Verisign's SiteFinder service also breaks many of the standard Windows networking utilities by providing misleading error messages, temporary lockups, and incorrect status information.
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With SiteFinder, the FTP utility now provides a useless error message: C:\work\sitefinder>ftp ftp.asdklsdfjaskdfjasdfjasdjfasdfj.com > ftp: connect :Unknown error number The PING utility gives incorrect results for misspelled domain names: Ditto for tracert:
The same happens with any sites owned by search engines that mass-register domains. Verisign's crap is an annoyance of a greater magnitude, but the per-domain effect is the same. If you'd use the bind patch, you wouldn't see any of that "incorrect" behavior. Expecting ping and traceroute to read your mind when your resolver gives them valid ip addresses for the targets is just silly. -- No man is clever enough to Times are bad. Children no longer know all the evil he does. obey their parents, and everyone -Francois de la Rochefoucauld is writing a book. -Cicero _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
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