[100673] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Hey, SiteFinder is back, again...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Kell)
Sun Nov 4 10:17:24 2007
Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2007 10:14:40 -0500
From: Jeff Kell <jeff-kell@utc.edu>
To: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
CC: nanog list <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <96DE8B1D-1ABF-4828-8865-95D3CDA52B4E@ianai.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
> Verizon != VeriSign, despite what people think.
>
> A single provider doing this is not equivalent to the root servers
> doing it. You can change providers, you can't change "." in DNS.
Charter has been doing this for quite some time. If you have
security/network/diagnostic tools where you need a DNS failure to get a
valid result, you're out of luck, they resolve everything, and you only
know something happened if you were doing http to start with. Mistype a
telnet, ssh, ftp, mail, etc hostname and you're in for some considerable
confusion until you figure out what's going on...
Jeff
