[IP] VeriSign prepares to relaunch "Site Finder" -- calls

Tue Feb 10 04:51:21 UTC 2004

Paul Vixie wrote:

> why?  that is, why kill sitefinder?  there's been plenty of invective
> on both sides, and a lot of unprofessional behaviour toward verisign

As I said, the measure may or may not be feasible - in fact, given that 
the domains are not registered, it most certainly is not feasible.

> this is nanog at .  if you think sitefinder poses an operational problem
> then please describe it (dispassionately).  if you think there is an
> operational thing that ought to be done in response to sitefinder, then
> please describe that (dispassionately).  the response you included...

You are of course right.  The problem posed by sitefinder in its 
previous form has been discussed already, and our bind / djbdns 
resolvers have been patched appropriately to ignore the aberrant 
behavior introduced by verisign.

There ends the operational impact of verisign's decision, till such time 
as they revive sitefinder, and till such time as resolver patches in 
existence are modified if necessary to cope with the new edition of 
sitefinder.

regards
-srs