[62837] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Verisign Responds
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Vixie)
Tue Sep 23 14:07:33 2003
From: Paul Vixie <paul@vix.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Message from "Jeroen Massar" <jeroen@unfix.org>
of "Tue, 23 Sep 2003 17:03:30 +0200."
<004101c381e3$d9fef570$210d640a@unfix.org>
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 18:06:59 +0000
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> I wonder btw why Verisign didn't catch the "typo's" in their
> own domains if they think it is that important:
> ...
> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> ;wwww.verisign.com. IN A
wildcards don't work that way. there are ns rr's in .com for verisign.com,
so you get a referral to those servers no matter whether a *.com wildcard
exists or not.
