Removal of wildcard A records from .com and .net zones

Fri Oct 3 22:15:21 UTC 2003

to give more notice to the.... hehe.. i think i just wet my pants..

On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, Matt Larson wrote:

> Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 17:50:02 -0400
> From: Matt Larson <mlarson at verisign.com>
> To: nanog at nanog.org
> Subject: Removal of wildcard A records from .com and .net zones
>
>
> VeriSign was directed by ICANN to suspend the Site Finder service by
> 0100 UTC on Sunday, October 5.  We requested an extension from ICANN
> to give more notice to the community but were denied.  We will be
> removing the wildcard A records from the .com and .net zones beginning
> at 2300 UTC on Saturday, October 4.  The former behavior for these
> zones (returning Name Error/RCODE=3 in response to queries for
> nonexistent domain names) will be in place by 0100 UTC on Sunday,
> October.
>
> Matt
> --
> Matt Larson <mlarson at verisign.com>
> VeriSign Naming and Directory Services
>

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