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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.

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