[62838] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Verisign Responds
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack Bates)
Tue Sep 23 14:11:10 2003
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 13:10:14 -0500
From: Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net>
To: Paul Vixie <paul@vix.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20030923180659.4D47713967@sa.vix.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Paul Vixie wrote:
>
> 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.
I think the point was that if catching typographical errors was so
important to verisign, they would have created a *.verisign.com wildcard
as well.
-Jack
