oh, WTF. That is just plain wrong. I didn't believe you until I tried it for myself :-/ Nice article btw, thanks for the link.
Cheers, Gareth On Wednesday 17 September 2003 12:31, Jim Cheetham wrote: > FYI, I see in my DNS today that every possible .com and .net address now > resolves, and goes to Verisign's portal site. > > This has an impact on email - rejecting an incoming email message > because the claimed From address does now exist now fails, because all > .com and .net addresses exist. > > (Naturally, spammers will start to fake from these domains only. Oddly, > lots of 'little' TLDs like .ws and .museum have been doing this for > ages, and the spammers don't seem to have taken advantage of it) > > However, because ICANN and Verisign are conjoined twins, there is no way > around the situation. > > http://homepages.tesco.net/~J.deBoynePollard/FGA/verisign-internet-coup.htm >l > > -jim
