[63455] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Will reverting DNS wildcard have any adverse affects?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joel Rowbottom)
Mon Oct 6 06:03:09 2003
Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2003 11:00:34 +0100
To: Niels Bakker <niels=nanog@bakker.net>, nanog@merit.edu
From: Joel Rowbottom <joel@jml.net>
In-Reply-To: <20031005224042.GT5754@snowcrash.tpb.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
At 23:40 05/10/2003, Niels Bakker wrote:
> > do arbitrary changes to them. Marking "com" and "net" as delegation-only
> > is not harming anything. (At least until ICANN changes its mind.)
>
>According to this mail:
>http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/registrars/msg00532.html
>... apparently it breaks IDN resolution. Does anybody have the definite
>word on that?
It would seem to do so, yes - removal of the wildcard would also imply that
Verisign's IDN stopgap (between applications which use the xn-- encoding
and applications which do 8-bit dns) will now break.
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