[63367] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Removal of wildcard A records from .com and .net zones
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matt Levine)
Fri Oct 3 17:58:31 2003
In-Reply-To: <20031003215002.GP3538@chinook.rgy.netsol.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
From: Matt Levine <matt@deliver3.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 17:57:32 -0400
To: Matt Larson <mlarson@verisign.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Oct 3, 2003, at 5:50 PM, Matt Larson wrote:
>
> VeriSign was directed by ICANN to suspend the Site Finder service by
> 0100 UTC on Sunday, October 5. We requested an extension from ICANN
> to give more notice to the community but were denied. We will be
So now you care about giving notice the community? That didn't seem
high on your priority list when you implemented it.
> removing the wildcard A records from the .com and .net zones beginning
> at 2300 UTC on Saturday, October 4. The former behavior for these
> zones (returning Name Error/RCODE=3 in response to queries for
> nonexistent domain names) will be in place by 0100 UTC on Sunday,
> October.
>
> Matt
> --
> Matt Larson <mlarson@verisign.com>
> VeriSign Naming and Directory Services
>
>
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Matt Levine <matt@deliver3.com>
"The Trouble with doing anything right the first time is that nobody
appreciates how difficult it was." -BIX
