The thing is
everyone knew Verisign had been planning this for a long time; but I guess
Verisign sprang it on the community while they were sleeping. The fact they have
significant participation in the world's DNS system, doens't help
any.
I mean, what
gives them the right. Now we have to write an RFC to manage another RFC
(sigh).
Regards,
Mark Tinka - CCNP
Network Engineer, Africa Online Uganda
-----Original Message-----Well at least somebody is significantly making ISPs views known.
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P.
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,60473,00.html
On Wednesday, Sep 17, 2003, at 08:25 Africa/Kampala, Mark Tinka wrote:
This is a disaster!
Regards,
Mark Tinka - CCNP
Network Engineer, Africa Online Uganda
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What do the ISP guys feel about this:
http://slashdot.org/articles/03/09/16/0034210.shtml?tid=126&tid=95&tid=98&tid=99
(VeriSign is a company which purchased Network Solutions, another company which was given the task by the US government of running the .COM and .NET top-level domains (TLDs). VeriSign has been exploiting the Internet's DNS infrastructure ever since.)
This will have the immediate effect of making network trouble-shooting much more difficult. Before, a mis-typed domain name in an email address, web browser, or other network configuration item would result in an obvious error message. You might not have known what to do about it, but at least you knew something was wrong. Now, though, you will have to guess. Every time.
Some have pointed out that this will make an important anti-spam check impossible. A common anti-spam measure is to check and make sure the domain name of the sender really exists. (While this is easy to force, every little bit helps.) Since all .COM and .NET domain names now exist, that anti-spam check is useless.
