[63383] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Removal of wildcard A records from .com and .net zones
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom (UnitedLayer))
Fri Oct 3 20:38:21 2003
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 17:37:18 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Tom (UnitedLayer)" <tom@unitedlayer.com>
To: Matt Larson <mlarson@verisign.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20031003215002.GP3538@chinook.rgy.netsol.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, 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.
You don't need an extension, we wanted it to go away as fast as possible.
> We will be removing the wildcard A records from the .com and .net zones
> beginning at 2300 UTC on Saturday, October 4.
I'm glad things will go back to actually working again.
Yay!
