Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
Verizon != VeriSign, despite what people think.
A single provider doing this is not equivalent to the root servers
doing it. You can change providers, you can't change "." in DNS.
Charter has been doing this for quite some time. If you have
security/network/diagnostic tools where you need a DNS failure to get a
valid result, you're out of luck, they resolve everything, and you only
know something happened if you were doing http to start with. Mistype a
telnet, ssh, ftp, mail, etc hostname and you're in for some considerable
confusion until you figure out what's going on...
Jeff
