Re: 'Net security gets root-level boost

[Paul Vixie <vixie () vix com>]

> BW> Love this quote from Verisign:
> BW>
> BW> "We tested Anycast for about a year...to monitor its behavior,"
> BW> Silva says. "These are important servers, and we didn't want to
> BW> make any rash decisions about deploying it."
>
> *gag*
>
> And wildcard entries?

at the icann-secsac meeting in wdc on 15oct03, verisign said that they
had turned the wildcard on several times, for a minute or two each time,
without notice to the community, in order to ensure that there were no
operational problems with it.  so, apparently, testing is a way of life.

(sadly for me personally, they didn't give dates or times that these
tests had been run, nor did they say they would preannounce future tests,
so nobody but verisign will be able to synchronize other measurements
with these tests.)
-- 
Paul Vixie