[67443] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [IP] VeriSign prepares to relaunch "Site Finder" -- calls
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Suresh Ramasubramanian)
Mon Feb 9 23:52:02 2004
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 10:21:21 +0530
From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh@outblaze.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <g3vfmfmtxm.fsf@sa.vix.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Paul Vixie wrote:
> why? that is, why kill sitefinder? there's been plenty of invective
> on both sides, and a lot of unprofessional behaviour toward verisign
As I said, the measure may or may not be feasible - in fact, given that
the domains are not registered, it most certainly is not feasible.
> this is nanog@. if you think sitefinder poses an operational problem
> then please describe it (dispassionately). if you think there is an
> operational thing that ought to be done in response to sitefinder, then
> please describe that (dispassionately). the response you included...
You are of course right. The problem posed by sitefinder in its
previous form has been discussed already, and our bind / djbdns
resolvers have been patched appropriately to ignore the aberrant
behavior introduced by verisign.
There ends the operational impact of verisign's decision, till such time
as they revive sitefinder, and till such time as resolver patches in
existence are modified if necessary to cope with the new edition of
sitefinder.
regards
-srs
