What *are* they smoking?
Mark Vallar
mark at vallar.net
Mon Sep 15 23:30:47 UTC 2003
> >> A wildcard A record in the net TLD.
> >
> >It's Verisign's return shot at the web browser "couldn't find this page"
> >searches. Doesn't seem to have much by way of advertising yet, but I'm
> >sure that'll change. I heard about this coming from somewhere last week,
> >though I don't recall where. Probably Wired or the WSJ. Verisign wants
> >the revenue that all those typos are generating. It's just the next shot
> >in the eyeball war.
>
> This is sufficiently technically and business slimy that
> I would null-route that IP, personally.
>
The bigger issue is DNS troubleshooting.....what a nightmare when a query of
the *.gtld-servers.net servers does not return an error. What happens when
they change the IP because of null-route'ing of the current IP to a
completely different /8 subnet.
Who engineered this!!!!! Or better yet, who allowed this blatant commercial
use of the TLD servers.
</disgusted>
Mark Vallar
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