[63106] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: A list of (mostly) technical consequences of TLD wildcards
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rik van Riel)
Sat Sep 27 11:31:06 2003
Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2003 11:29:57 -0400 (EDT)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.53.0309261647340.9144@life-gone-hazy.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Fri, 26 Sep 2003, Duane Wessels wrote:
> I've been collecting a list of things that are broken, or might break,
> now that the two most populated TLDs have A and MX record wildcards.
Makes me wonder why Verisign didn't use a (less harmful?) CNAME
wildcard ...
Rik
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