[63378] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Will reverting DNS wildcard have any adverse affects?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Batchelor)
Fri Oct 3 19:50:58 2003
Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2003 16:50:21 -0700
From: Mike Batchelor <mikebat@tmcs.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20031003193015.B54929@kod.inch.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
--On Friday, October 03, 2003 7:36 PM -0400 Gerald <gcoon@inch.com> wrote:
> I just wanted to point out if anyone did something other than just
> patching bind and moving on, consider the repercussions of Verisign
> reverting or you might have your weekend plans averted to undo your
> changes.
>
> Gerald Coon
I only changed the service that was most drastically affected, my anti-spam
relays. I put in a HACK() that restored the "sender domain must exist"
behavior to sendmail, when a sender domain resolved to the SiteFinder
address. I figured my measures ought to affect as little as possible, and
address only real operational problems that the wildcards caused.
I am optimistic that this is the last time we'll see any wildcards in any
gTLDs.
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"The avalanche has already begun. It is too late for the pebbles to vote."
-- Kosh
