[100680] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Hey, SiteFinder is back, again...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eliot Lear)
Mon Nov 5 02:28:19 2007
Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2007 08:27:11 +0100
From: Eliot Lear <lear@cisco.com>
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
CC: nanog list <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.64.0711041735510.5309@clifden.donelan.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Sean,
>>
>> Yes, it sounds like the evil bit. Why would anyone bother to set it?
>
> Two reasons
>
> 1) By standardizing the process, it removes the excuse for using
> various hacks and duct tape.
>
> 2) Because the villian in Bond movies don't view themselves as evil.
> Google is happy to pre-check the box to install their Toolbar, OpenDNS
> is proud they redirect phishing sites with DNS lookups, Earthlink says it
> improves the customer experience, and so on.
Forgive my skepticism, but what I would envision happening is resolver
stacks adding a switch that would be on by default, and would translate
the response back to NXDOMAIN. At that point we would be right back
where we started, only after a lengthy debate, an RFC, a bunch of code,
numerous bugs, and a bunch of "I told you sos".
Or put another way: what is a client resolver supposed to do in the face
of this bit?
Eliot
