[63641] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: More news coverage
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vivien M.)
Wed Oct 8 20:31:08 2003
From: "Vivien M." <vivienm@dyndns.org>
To: "'ken emery'" <ken@cnet.com>, <nanog@merit.org>
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2003 20:28:47 -0400
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0310081536540.6697-100000@cappone>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On
> Behalf Of ken emery
> Sent: October 8, 2003 6:41 PM
> To: nanog@merit.org
> Subject: Re: More news coverage
>
>
> I think the thing which needs to be gotten across to the
> general public (and the decision makers) is the SiteFinder
> service itself was NOT shut down. The redirection to the
> SiteFinder service was what was shut down. This was done
> because this redirection is believed to have adverse side
> effects. The way things are being painted it seems that the
> SiteFinder service was turned off and there is nothing
> further from the truth.
But isn't the "SiteFinder service" just VeriSign Marketing's name for the
wildcard A record? What's the point of the search engine at
sitefinder.verisign.com (which appears to be down) without the wildcard A
record directing stuff to it?
Vivien
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Vivien M.
vivienm@dyndns.org
Assistant System Administrator
Dynamic DNS Network Services
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