[62412] in North American Network Operators' Group
Just had an interesting side effect of the "V" hijack...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jerry Eyers)
Thu Sep 18 08:24:06 2003
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 08:21:11 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
From: "Jerry Eyers" <jeyers@rebma.com>
To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
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Went to register.com to register a new DNS server for someone, and when i=
t
normally asks for the IP address (new server, new domain), it didn't beca=
use
when it did a query, it got a response for that name. Now, it is reporti=
ng
the new DNS server as resolving to Verisign's IP address.=0D
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I think register has got some tweaking to do on their web scripts to igno=
re
wildcard responses...=0D
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But, shows another side effect of "V's" unilateral action.=0D
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Jerry
