Verisign vs. ICANN

Tue Aug 17 09:14:57 UTC 2004

On Mon, 16 Aug 2004, Paul Wouters wrote:

> Unfortunately, SiteFinder did not have such a destructive effect as we
> had all wanted it to have. Statistics in our network showed no
> significant increase in dns traffic. Especially if you compare it
> against things like SoBig:
>
> http://www.xtdnet.nl/paul/spam/graphs/versign.png

In terms of DNS traffic leaving your network, it was the same amount of
traffic.  Query packets got sent to the gtld servers, and Answer packets
came back.

Since the wildcard answer was an 'A' (this is it bub), and not 'NS' (go
look over there willya?), the SiteFinder IP address was not sent any DNS
traffic, thus there was no appreciable increase in DNS traffic.

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Bruce.

NXDOMAIN != Connection Refused