Folks, With total and complete respect for those offended by the morons at Verisign, or the merely amused -
I really wish that I had your problems if this is the biggest bitch of the day.... I'll gladly trade. ;o> -rtk -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jose Nazario Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 4:19 PM To: Thor Larholm Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; NTBugtraq; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Full-Disclosure] Re: Verisign abusing .COM/.NET monopoly, BIND releases new a number of options exist to help you remedy this issue: - bind 9.2.3rc2 supports "delegation-only", stopping some wildcard implementations from making any difference if you simply want to stop traffic getting there (they are running a website and a partially functional MTA on that IP): - you can BGP null route this http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/msg13715.html - cisco's NBAR functionality may be used to detect and block those reply packets from coming in by looking for the response from the nameservers. http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/software/ios121/121newft/121 limit/121e/121e2/nbar2e.htm note that this wont stop the query from reaching verisign, it will just stop you from going to that IP. however, for some enforcing network privacy concerns, that may be worthwhile. hope this helps, ___________________________ jose nazario, ph.d. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://monkey.org/~jose/ _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
