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Re: A list of (mostly) technical consequences of TLD wildcards


From: Rik van Riel <riel () surriel com>
Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2003 11:29:57 -0400 (EDT)


On Fri, 26 Sep 2003, Duane Wessels wrote:

I've been collecting a list of things that are broken, or might break,
now that the two most populated TLDs have A and MX record wildcards.

Makes me wonder why Verisign didn't use a (less harmful?) CNAME
wildcard ...

Rik
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"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan


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