[63390] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Removal of wildcard A records from .com and .net zones
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (E.B. Dreger)
Sat Oct 4 01:09:04 2003
Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2003 05:08:17 +0000 (GMT)
From: "E.B. Dreger" <eddy+public+spam@noc.everquick.net>
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
ML> Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 17:50:02 -0400
ML> From: Matt Larson <mlarson@verisign.com>
ML> VeriSign was directed by ICANN to suspend the Site Finder service by
ML> 0100 UTC on Sunday, October 5. We requested an extension from ICANN
ML> to give more notice to the community but were denied. We will be
s,notice to the community,time to whine to the press,
ML> removing the wildcard A records from the .com and .net zones beginning
ML> at 2300 UTC on Saturday, October 4. The former behavior for these
ML> zones (returning Name Error/RCODE=3 in response to queries for
ML> nonexistent domain names) will be in place by 0100 UTC on Sunday,
ML> October.
Looks like Sitefinder is still running.
Messy source code? Hairy domain database? Why the delay?
Trying to squeeze out a few more bucks before the deadline,
perhaps? Nahhh... of course not!
Eddy
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