Verisign Responds

Wed Sep 24 13:51:43 UTC 2003

Paul Vixie wrote:

>>It's still to be seen if ISC's cure is worse than the disease; as 
>>instead of detecting and stoping wildcard sets, it looks for delegation. 
> 
> 
> that's because wildcard ("synthesized") responses do not look different
> on the wire, and looking for a specific A RR that can be changed every day
> or even loadbalanced through four /16's that may have real hosts in them
> seems like the wrong way forward.

See the NANOG archives for my post reguarding wildcard caching and set 
comparison with additional resolver functionality for requesting if the 
resolver wishes to receive wildcards or NXDOMAIN.

-Jack