[62112] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Change to .com/.net behavior
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Neil J. McRae)
Tue Sep 16 03:12:29 2003
To: mlarson@verisign.com (Matt Larson)
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 08:09:07 +0100 (BST)
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20030915232429.GA15402@chinook.rgy.netsol.com> from "Matt Larson" at Sep 15, 2003 07:24:29 PM
From: neil@DOMINO.ORG (Neil J. McRae)
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> Today VeriSign is adding a wildcard A record to the .com and .net
> zones. The wildcard record in the .net zone was activated from
> 10:45AM EDT to 13:30PM EDT. The wildcard record in the .com zone is
> being added now. We have prepared a white paper describing VeriSign's
> wildcard implementation, which is available here:
This is an insane idea and the other registries doing this
should remove this "feature" also. Goodbye network security.
Neil.