[63371] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Removal of wildcard A records from .com and .net zones
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ryan Dobrynski)
Fri Oct 3 18:19:20 2003
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 18:15:21 -0400 (AST)
From: Ryan Dobrynski <ryan@viaccess.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20031003215002.GP3538@chinook.rgy.netsol.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
to give more notice to the.... hehe.. i think i just wet my pants..
On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, Matt Larson wrote:
> Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 17:50:02 -0400
> From: Matt Larson <mlarson@verisign.com>
> To: nanog@nanog.org
> Subject: Removal of wildcard A records from .com and .net zones
>
>
> 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
> 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
>
Ryan Dobrynski
Hat-Swapping Gnome
Choice Communications
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