Change to .com/.net behavior
Duane Wessels
cee4 at packet-pushers.com
Tue Sep 16 04:53:58 UTC 2003
On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, Matt Larson wrote:
>
> Today VeriSign is adding a wildcard A record to the .com and .net
> zones.
The Web Proxy Auto-discovery Protocol (WPAD) is another reason to
fear and loathe this change. If your host has a bogus name and
makes a WPAD request, they can send your browser a proxy config
function and take full control of your browsing.
Not that they would ever stoop so low... *cough*
Duane W.
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