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Re: Observation on SiteFinder
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Mon Oct 20 15:04:59 2003
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@research.att.com>
To: "Ray Bellis" <rpb@community.net.uk>
Cc: "nanog list" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 20 Oct 2003 18:08:13 BST."
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Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 15:01:40 -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
In message <00f301c3972c$bf320f30$f603020a@RPBHP>, "Ray Bellis" writes:
>
>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...
From the "Technical Adviser" column in today's Wall Street Journal:
So, what kind of tips do the tipsters give you? Here's a
typical one: Before you type in a Web address in your
browser, in nearly all cases you don't need the "www "
part; you'll be taken where you want to go without it. In
other words, "microsoft.com" is the same as "www.microsoft.com."
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb
