[31668] in bugtraq
RE: Verisign abusing .COM/.NET monopoly, BIND releases new
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bugtraq)
Thu Sep 18 18:13:31 2003
From: "bugtraq" <bugtraq@arcanasystems.com>
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Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 14:39:58 -0600
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On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, SR wrote:
> > This is simply amazing, Verisign has just turned the .COM and .NET TLD
> > DNS servers up-side-down for their own economical gain and, in doing so,
> > disrupted network traffic for most of the Internet. Mail administrators
> > who use any non-existant DNSBL to mark email as spam suddenly has all
> > their mails deleted, people using localhost.localdomain.com on their
> > servers for administrative purposes are scrambling to find out the cause
> > of their problems and DNS problems arise everywhere as neg caching is
> > essentially disabled and all DNS caches have to cache each and every
> > randomly typed DNS query.
> >
> > The BIND patch that prevents this should be released Wednesday.
And they're unrepentant:
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-5078657.html?tag=zdnnfd.main
This may turn out to be the biggest marketing blunder since New Coke (we can
hope).
