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Observation on SiteFinder

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ray Bellis)
Mon Oct 20 13:09:57 2003

From: "Ray Bellis" <rpb@community.net.uk>
To: "nanog list" <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 18:08:13 +0100
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


Has it occurred to anyone else that the side effects of Verisign's
wildcard record might have been very much reduced if the wildcard had
only worked if the address being resolved actually started 'www.' ?

Not that I ever want to see Verisign's abomination resurrected, of
course...

Ray

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