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Re: What *are* they smoking?
From: "Mark Vallar" <mark () vallar net>
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 19:30:47 -0400
A wildcard A record in the net TLD.It's Verisign's return shot at the web browser "couldn't find this page" searches. Doesn't seem to have much by way of advertising yet, but I'm sure that'll change. I heard about this coming from somewhere last week, though I don't recall where. Probably Wired or the WSJ. Verisign wants the revenue that all those typos are generating. It's just the next shot in the eyeball war.This is sufficiently technically and business slimy that I would null-route that IP, personally.
The bigger issue is DNS troubleshooting.....what a nightmare when a query of the *.gtld-servers.net servers does not return an error. What happens when they change the IP because of null-route'ing of the current IP to a completely different /8 subnet. Who engineered this!!!!! Or better yet, who allowed this blatant commercial use of the TLD servers. </disgusted> Mark Vallar
Current thread:
- Re: Verisign brain damage and DNSSec.....Was:Re: What *are* they smoking?, (continued)
- Re: Verisign brain damage and DNSSec.....Was:Re: What *are* they smoking? Valdis . Kletnieks (Sep 16)
- Re: Verisign brain damage and DNSSec.....Was:Re: What *are* they smoking? Jack Bates (Sep 16)
- RE: Verisign brain damage and DNSSec.....Was:Re: What *are* they smoking? Eric Germann (Sep 16)
- Re: Verisign brain damage and DNSSec.....Was:Re: What *are* they smoking? Jack Bates (Sep 17)
- Re: Verisign brain damage and DNSSec.....Was:Re: What *are* they smoking? Jay Hennigan (Sep 16)
- Re: What *are* they smoking? alex (Sep 16)
- Re: What *are* they smoking? George William Herbert (Sep 15)
- Re: What *are* they smoking? Matthew Crocker (Sep 15)
- Re: What *are* they smoking? Daniel Roesen (Sep 15)
- Re: What *are* they smoking? Marc Slemko (Sep 15)
- Re: What *are* they smoking? Matthew Crocker (Sep 15)
- Re: What *are* they smoking? Mark Vallar (Sep 15)
- Re: What *are* they smoking? Patrick W. Gilmore (Sep 15)
- Re: What *are* they smoking? Christopher X. Candreva (Sep 15)
- bind patch? (Re: What *are* they smoking?) Paul Vixie (Sep 16)
- Re: public resolver (was: bind patch? (Re: What *are* they smoking?)) Iljitsch van Beijnum (Sep 17)
- Re: public resolver Doron Shikmoni (Sep 17)
- Re: public resolver (was: bind patch? (Re: What *are* they smoking?)) Paul Vixie (Sep 17)
- Re: public resolver (was: bind patch? (Re: What *are* they smoking?)) Iljitsch van Beijnum (Sep 18)
- Patching BIND (Re: What *are* they smoking?) E.B. Dreger (Sep 15)
- Re: Patching BIND (Re: What *are* they smoking?) John Brown (Sep 15)
- Re: Patching BIND (Re: What *are* they smoking?) E.B. Dreger (Sep 15)