RE: More news coverage

["Vivien M." <vivienm () dyndns org>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog () merit edu [mailto:owner-nanog () merit edu] On 
> Behalf Of ken emery
> Sent: October 8, 2003 6:41 PM
> To: nanog () merit org
> Subject: Re: More news coverage
>
>
> I think the thing which needs to be gotten across to the 
> general public (and the decision makers) is the SiteFinder 
> service itself was NOT shut down.  The redirection to the 
> SiteFinder service was what was shut down.  This was done 
> because this redirection is believed to have adverse side 
> effects.  The way things are being painted it seems that the 
> SiteFinder service was turned off and there is nothing 
> further from the truth.

But isn't the "SiteFinder service" just VeriSign Marketing's name for the
wildcard A record? What's the point of the search engine at
sitefinder.verisign.com (which appears to be down) without the wildcard A
record directing stuff to it?

Vivien
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Vivien M.
vivienm () dyndns org
Assistant System Administrator
Dynamic DNS Network Services
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