Re: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your ...

2003-09-24 Thread Masataka Ohta
Dean; > When you get an NXDOMAIN DNS protocol reply, the DNS protocol (RFC 1034, > etc) defines a specific meaning. Neither rfc1034 nor rfc1035 define "NXDOMAIN DNS protocol reply. > But when you don't get NXDOMAIN, there is > no meaning to be implied. This is a fact due to the inclusion of wil

Re: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your ...

2003-09-24 Thread Masataka Ohta
Dean; > Specifically, you insist that DNS queries, via DNS _protocol_ > can be used to check if a domain exists. No, I never. Masataka Ohta

RE: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your ...

2003-09-24 Thread Laird, James
Sorry, this is actually WRONG. Dean wrote: >These people are upset because now the unregistered .com and .net domains >don't return NXDOMAIN, but give the address of Verisign. The next step in >their "test" will check the reverse address of Verisign, and find it to >match. --snip-- nslookup >www

RE: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your ...

2003-09-24 Thread Dean Anderson
Ok, one last message. This removes some apparent confusion between "reverse DNS abuse" and the current Verisign complaints. The people who have "problems with Verisign" expect to do a forward lookup on a domain name, and if they don't get NXDOMAIN, they want to do a reverse lookup on the address,

Re: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your ...

2003-09-23 Thread Dean Anderson
More FUD. Real spammers use opt-in addresses, collected by the companies they are spamming for. This costs the company no more than collecting snail mail addresses. Most companies collect these opt-in addresses. Only radical antispammers collect and abuse addresses via things like webscanning. A

RE: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your ...

2003-09-23 Thread Laird, James
Dean wrote: >Specifically, you insist that DNS queries, via DNS _protocol_ >can be used to check if a domain exists. You are pointedly ignoring the fact that there are two "planes of existence". There is the "conceptual" plane - the registry records, saying you have control over the name. Then the

Re: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your ...

2003-09-23 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 19:35:45 EDT, Dean Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > There has been no evidence that Verisign has collected any sender > addresses, nor would there be any reason for them to want to. *plonk* Sorry Dean, you've finally managed to push over the edge from "possibly just dense

RE: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your ...

2003-09-23 Thread Dean Anderson
Most of this is becoming tedious and circular. Different people are posting the same canards. But I don't want people to go away with the impression that I didn't use precise language to explain things. E.g "domain names" in place of "domains", or "registry of domain names" in place of "registry".

Re: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your ...

2003-09-23 Thread Dean Anderson
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Masataka Ohta wrote: > > Wildcards are part of the DNS protocol. > > You are still trying to confuse the system and a protocol in vain. It is you who is struggling in vain. You and the rest of the reverse DNS abusers are confused. They and you, have been proven wrong on this

Re: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your ...

2003-09-23 Thread Masataka Ohta
James; > Dean wrote: > >The fact still remains that DNS entries do not necessarilly imply > >registration, and that the DNS protocol cannot be used to make registry > >queries. > > This is getting so far from the topic it's not funny. > > Do any of the systems broken by Verisign try and do REGIS

Re: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your ...

2003-09-23 Thread Masataka Ohta
Dean; > > Domain registry is a part of DNS system and is of no importance > > as long as proper names are returned for DNS queries. > > Good, Then we agree: Verisign is not doing anything wrong. As long as Verisign's registry has nothing to do with the result for com/net TLD query, yes. > Wildc

RE: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your ...

2003-09-23 Thread Laird, James
Dean wrote: >The fact still remains that DNS entries do not necessarilly imply >registration, and that the DNS protocol cannot be used to make registry >queries. This is getting so far from the topic it's not funny. Do any of the systems broken by Verisign try and do REGISTRY queries through DNS?

Re: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your ...

2003-09-23 Thread Dean Anderson
> Domain registry is a part of DNS system and is of no importance > as long as proper names are returned for DNS queries. Good, Then we agree: Verisign is not doing anything wrong. Wildcards are part of the DNS protocol. A wildcard is a "proper name .. returned for DNS queries".

Re: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your ...

2003-09-23 Thread Masataka Ohta
Dean; > > > > > > You say "names". But, is it "whois names" or "domain names"? > > > > > > > > > > I mean "people useful" names. Whois is a protocol for accessing the > > > > > registration of names. DNS is a a protocol for distributing Records > > > > > > > > Wrong. > > > > > > > > Whois protocol

Re: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your ...

2003-09-23 Thread Tim Chown
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 02:24:42PM -0400, Dean Anderson wrote: > That is irrelevant to the discussion. What is relevant to this discussion? It goes on endlessly (although I'm only seeing 50% of the posts without looking in my "special" folder :) Tim

Re: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your ...

2003-09-23 Thread Dean Anderson
On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Doug Royer wrote: > >HIPPA covers _medical_ information. Email addresses are not medical > >information. The email address in an email message is not a medical record > >protected by HIPPA. Third, the email address is already being disclosed > >to the ISP running the relay. >

Re: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your ...

2003-09-23 Thread Doug Royer
Dean Anderson wrote: ... HIPPA covers _medical_ information. Email addresses are not medical information. The email address in an email message is not a medical record protected by HIPPA. Third, the email address is already being disclosed to the ISP running the relay. You keep assuming things

Re: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your ...

2003-09-23 Thread Dean Anderson
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Doug Royer wrote: > >>The HIPPA argument doesn't fly at all. However, Verisign is also subject > >>to the ECPA, and may not disclose the contents email, any more than any > >>other communications providers can. No confidentiality (HIPPA or > >>otherwise) is broken. > >> > >>I'

Re: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your ...

2003-09-23 Thread Dean Anderson
On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Bruce Campbell wrote: > On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Dean Anderson wrote in reply to Doug Royer: > > > > No. On once case your get a "no such host" error and never send the > > > email in the first place and the other case gets a bounce. Not the same > > > thing. > > > > You don't see

Re: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your ...

2003-09-23 Thread Dean Anderson
On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Masataka Ohta wrote: > > > > > You say "names". But, is it "whois names" or "domain names"? > > > > > > > > I mean "people useful" names. Whois is a protocol for accessing the > > > > registration of names. DNS is a a protocol for distributing Records > > > > > > Wrong. > > >

Re: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your ...

2003-09-23 Thread Dean Anderson
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Larry Smith wrote: > Have followed the thread and am aware of what has been said. Point still > remains, your comment is that in "neither" case will the message get > delivered - and my comment was "not totally true". I am not referring to the > MUA doing the check, I am r

Re: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your ...

2003-09-23 Thread Doug Royer
Dean Anderson wrote: On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Doug Royer wrote: You do not seem to be getting the message the MTA and MUA MAY be the same program. So NOT true. I do. Even in the same program, they are different functions. The MTA should return a bounce. You should always get a bounce, in res

Re: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your ...

2003-09-23 Thread jfcm
On 05:31 23/09/03, Larry Smith said: This is what verisign has "changed"... I am afraid this is not what they have changed, this is what IETF has not addressed in 20 years. Let not blame the need. Let blame the lack of solutions. jfc

Re: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your ...

2003-09-23 Thread Bruce Campbell
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Dean Anderson wrote in reply to Doug Royer: > > No. On once case your get a "no such host" error and never send the > > email in the first place and the other case gets a bounce. Not the same > > thing. > > You don't seem to understand how mail works. In both cases you get a >

Re: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your ...

2003-09-22 Thread Masataka Ohta
Dean; > > > > You say "names". But, is it "whois names" or "domain names"? > > > > > > I mean "people useful" names. Whois is a protocol for accessing the > > > registration of names. DNS is a a protocol for distributing Records > > > > Wrong. > > > > Whois protocol is a protocol for accessing the

Re: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your ...

2003-09-22 Thread Larry Smith
On Monday 22 September 2003 20:35, Dean Anderson wrote: > On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Larry Smith wrote: > > > You don't seem to understand how mail works. In both cases you get a > > > bounce. In neither case is a message sent. > > > > Hmmm, again not totally true. In the first case (pre-Versign) the ma

Re: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your ...

2003-09-22 Thread Dean Anderson
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Doug Royer wrote: > > You do not seem to be getting the message the MTA and MUA MAY be the same > program. So NOT true. I do. Even in the same program, they are different functions. The MTA should return a bounce. You should always get a bounce, in response to an error. You s

RE: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your ...

2003-09-22 Thread Laird, James
Dean Anderson wrote: >Clearly, DNS doesn't indicate anything about whether a domain is >registered, as you demonstrate. DNS indicates whether there is a server serving that domain. Verisign broke that quite effectively. >However, we know that the registration will eventually be reflected in >DNS.

RE: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your ...

2003-09-22 Thread Dean Anderson
Uhh, you might think about that. Clearly, DNS doesn't indicate anything about whether a domain is registered, as you demonstrate. However, we know that the registration will eventually be reflected in DNS. The reverse does not happen. --Dean On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Laird, James wro

Re: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your ...

2003-09-22 Thread Dean Anderson
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Larry Smith wrote: > > You don't seem to understand how mail works. In both cases you get a > > bounce. In neither case is a message sent. > > Hmmm, again not totally true. In the first case (pre-Versign) the mail > "client" (user end of the equation - at least on all my se

RE: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your ...

2003-09-22 Thread Laird, James
> DNS !-> Registration > Registration -> DNS Wrong. I have a registered domain. I have no DNS entries. DNS !-> Registration Registration !-> DNS --James Disclaimer: Whilst every attempt has been made to ensure that material contained in this email is free from computer viruses or other defe

Re: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your ...

2003-09-22 Thread Doug Royer
Dean Anderson wrote >>> As was pointed out, some servers will give up right away. In either case, >>> the user should get a bounce, and can follow the instructions as to >>> whether the delivery will be retried or not >>> >> No. On once case your get a "no such host" error and never send the >>

Re: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your ...

2003-09-22 Thread Larry Smith
On Monday 22 September 2003 19:04, Dean Anderson wrote: > > >As was pointed out, some servers will give up right away. In either > > > case, the user should get a bounce, and can follow the instructions as > > > to whether the delivery will be retried or not. > > > > No. On once case your get a "n

Re: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your ...

2003-09-22 Thread Larry Smith
On Monday 22 September 2003 15:41, Dean Anderson wrote: > On Sun, 21 Sep 2003, Larry Smith wrote: > > > Both of these are perfectly valid responses. You get them at the same > > > time, or you get the second one sooner. > > > > Not quite totally true. In the second case - it _will_ connect and > >

Re: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your ...

2003-09-22 Thread Dean Anderson
> >As was pointed out, some servers will give up right away. In either case, > >the user should get a bounce, and can follow the instructions as to > >whether the delivery will be retried or not. > > > No. On once case your get a "no such host" error and never send the > email in the first place

Re: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your ...

2003-09-22 Thread John C Klensin
--On Monday, 22 September, 2003 15:57 -0600 Doug Royer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... Same with health / HIPPA issues. Saying I'll take your email and bounce it back is not the same as saying "hey bozo, you are trying to send to a bogus host name". The email may be encrypted, however that is no

Re: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your ...

2003-09-22 Thread Doug Royer
Dean Anderson wrote: On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 16:00:47 EDT, Dean Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: It never sends the email in either case. In the first case, it will say no such host, and return an error to the user. In the second case, it wi

Re: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your ...

2003-09-22 Thread Russ Allbery
Dean Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > And I am just thrilled to see IE not go to MSN when I type in a wrong > name. I've been showing this to everyone. Most people like the > demonstration, and trust Verisign more than Microsoft. Doesn't configuring browser behavior by making fundamental ch

Re: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your ...

2003-09-22 Thread Dean Anderson
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Masataka Ohta wrote: > > > You say "names". But, is it "whois names" or "domain names"? > > > > I mean "people useful" names. Whois is a protocol for accessing the > > registration of names. DNS is a a protocol for distributing Records > > Wrong. > > Whois protocol is a protoc

Re: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your ...

2003-09-22 Thread Dean Anderson
On Sun, 21 Sep 2003, Larry Smith wrote: > > Both of these are perfectly valid responses. You get them at the same > > time, or you get the second one sooner. > > Not quite totally true. In the second case - it _will_ connect and initiate > the transfer (helo, mail from, rcpt to) phase of _sendin

Re: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your ...

2003-09-22 Thread Dean Anderson
On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 16:00:47 EDT, Dean Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > It never sends the email in either case. In the first case, it will say no > > such host, and return an error to the user. In the second case, it will > > attempt to c

Re: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your ...

2003-09-21 Thread Masataka Ohta
Dean; > > > > > The "set" is the set of *registered* names. The proper and only way to > > > > > query this set is through whois. > > > > > > > > The only reason to have domain names registered is to use it > > > > through DNS. > > > > > > The only reason we have DNS is to associate information s

Re: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your ...

2003-09-21 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 16:00:47 EDT, Dean Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > It never sends the email in either case. In the first case, it will say no > such host, and return an error to the user. In the second case, it will > attempt to connect to 64.94.110.11 and will get an error, which will

Re: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your ...

2003-09-21 Thread Larry Smith
On Sunday 21 September 2003 15:00, Dean Anderson wrote: > It never sends the email in either case. In the first case, it will say no > such host, and return an error to the user. In the second case, it will > attempt to connect to 64.94.110.11 and will get an error, which will be > returned to the

Re: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your ...

2003-09-21 Thread Dean Anderson
Yes, there always is someone who just doesn't understand what they are talking about. /usr/sbin/sendmail -t From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Lyndon can't figure out how sendmail works Sendmail doesn't route messages in MUA mode. . Sendmail has completely different interna

Re: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your ...

2003-09-21 Thread Dean Anderson
On Sat, 20 Sep 2003, Doug Royer wrote: > So even if you were right, it busts the MTA: > > Prior to the change, the MTA would say "NO SUCH HOST" and never send the > email (and my MTA was built into my MUA). > > Now the MTA gets the 64.94.110.11 address and sends the email to the non > existent dom

Re: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your ...

2003-09-21 Thread Dean Anderson
On Sun, 21 Sep 2003, Masataka Ohta wrote: > Dean; > > > > > The "set" is the set of *registered* names. The proper and only way to > > > > query this set is through whois. > > > > > > The only reason to have domain names registered is to use it > > > through DNS. > > > > The only reason we have

Re: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your ...

2003-09-20 Thread Doug Royer
Dean Anderson wrote: On Sat, 20 Sep 2003, Doug Royer wrote: RFC 2821 (proposed standard) sheds some light on that: (This isn't a replacement to STD0010, but reveals the disagreement on the roles of MTAs and MUAs) Your quote talks about conventions that may be used. It does not support

Re: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your ...

2003-09-20 Thread Eric A. Hall
on 9/20/2003 6:01 PM Dean Anderson wrote: > You are correct that SMTP is a peer to peer protocol, not a client > server protocol. However, there is a distinction between mail routing, > an MTA function, and mail submission, an MUA function. The functions constitute the service, not the protocol

Re: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your ...

2003-09-20 Thread Larry Smith
On Saturday 20 September 2003 18:13, Dean Anderson wrote: > On Sat, 20 Sep 2003, Masataka Ohta wrote: > > Dean; > > > > > The "set" is the set of *registered* names. The proper and only way to > > > query this set is through whois. > > > > The only reason to have domain names registered is to use

Re: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your ...

2003-09-20 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Dean writes: > However, there is a distinction between mail routing, an MTA > function, and mail submission, an MUA function. Not in the SMTP protocol.

Re: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your ...

2003-09-20 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
On Sat, 20 Sep 2003, Dean Anderson wrote: There's one in every crowd ... > I notice that it didn't try to route the message immediately when you did > that. $ sendmail -t From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Dean is *still* wrong idiots abound . $ --lyndon Never express your

Re: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your ...

2003-09-20 Thread Masataka Ohta
Dean; > > > The "set" is the set of *registered* names. The proper and only way to > > > query this set is through whois. > > > > The only reason to have domain names registered is to use it > > through DNS. > > The only reason we have DNS is to associate information such as IP > addresses with

Re: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your ...

2003-09-20 Thread Dean Anderson
I notice that it didn't try to route the message immediately when you did that. Sendmail, works just like I describe. You are wrong. --Dean On Sat, 20 Sep 2003, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: > > The MUA in this case is performing (incorrectly) MTA functions. That is a > > bug. > >

Re: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your ...

2003-09-20 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
> The MUA in this case is performing (incorrectly) MTA functions. That is a > bug. $ sendmail -t From: lyndon To: lyndon Subject: Dean is wrong hi there . $ Say again? --lyndon The longest UNIX error code is ENAMETOOLONG.

Re: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your ...

2003-09-20 Thread Dean Anderson
On Sat, 20 Sep 2003, Doug Royer wrote: > > > >RFC 2821 (proposed standard) sheds some light on that: (This isn't a > >replacement to STD0010, but reveals the disagreement on the roles of MTAs > >and MUAs) > > > Your quote talks about conventions that may be used. It does not support > your view t

Re: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your ...

2003-09-20 Thread Dean Anderson
On Sat, 20 Sep 2003, Masataka Ohta wrote: > Dean; > > > The "set" is the set of *registered* names. The proper and only way to > > query this set is through whois. > > The only reason to have domain names registered is to use it > through DNS. The only reason we have DNS is to associate inform

Re: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your ...

2003-09-20 Thread Dean Anderson
You are correct that SMTP is a peer to peer protocol, not a client server protocol. However, there is a distinction between mail routing, an MTA function, and mail submission, an MUA function. The MUA in this case is performing (incorrectly) MTA functions. That is a bug. --Dean

Re: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your ...

2003-09-20 Thread John C Klensin
--On Saturday, 20 September, 2003 11:02 -0600 Doug Royer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dean Anderson wrote: RFC 2821 (proposed standard) sheds some light on that: (This isn't a replacement to STD0010, but reveals the disagreement on the roles of MTAs and MUAs) Your quote talks about conventions t

Re: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your ...

2003-09-20 Thread Doug Royer
Dean Anderson wrote: On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Doug Royer wrote: No, its not valid for a mail client to make direct connections. Can you site any RFC that says that? RFC 2821 (proposed standard) sheds some light on that: (This isn't a replacement to STD0010, but reveals the disagreem

Re: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your ...

2003-09-20 Thread Masataka Ohta
Tim; > So when are Verisign's rights to handle .net/.com up for renewal? > > It seems we should see that they don't get a renewal. Which .net/.com? Whois ones or DNS ones? Whois ones may be updated by Verisign, forever. :-) > > Tim > > On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 03:04:52PM +0859, Masataka Ohta

Re: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your ...

2003-09-20 Thread Tim Chown
So when are Verisign's rights to handle .net/.com up for renewal? It seems we should see that they don't get a renewal. Tim On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 03:04:52PM +0859, Masataka Ohta wrote: > > DNS has nothing to > > do with registration > > If you are arguing that verisign registration has nothin

Re: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your ...

2003-09-20 Thread Masataka Ohta
Dean; > The "set" is the set of *registered* names. The proper and only way to > query this set is through whois. The only reason to have domain names registered is to use it through DNS. Whois may be a useful tool for registration convenience but is of secondary importance. If you disagree, l

Re: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your ...

2003-09-19 Thread Dean Anderson
What Doug Royer is complaining about is that his mail client previously told him right away. He didn't have to wait for a bounce. Now he has to wait for a bounce, and that is a "big change". As I pointed, this is incorrect behavior to begin with, on the part of MUA. It is therefore, "not a big c

Re: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your ...

2003-09-19 Thread Dean Anderson
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 14:27:47 EDT, Dean Anderson said: > > What Doug Royer is complaining about is that his mail client previously > > told him right away. He didn't have to wait for a bounce. Now he has to > > wait for a bounce, and that is a "big ch

Re: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your ...

2003-09-19 Thread hardie
At 8:51 AM -0700 09/18/2003, Bill Manning wrote: ok, what about DoC & ICANN agreements w/ VSGN giving them the authority to continue to register in and publish the .COM and .NET domains? That looks like an entitlment to me. Think it from a set theory perspective for a secon

RE: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your ...

2003-09-19 Thread bill
move it - however it is not illegal. Go figure Bill -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dean Anderson Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 8:45 AM To: Keith Moore Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your ... On

Re: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your ...

2003-09-19 Thread Dean Anderson
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Doug Royer wrote: > >No, its not valid for a mail client to make direct connections. > > > Can you site any RFC that says that? RFC 2821 (proposed standard) sheds some light on that: (This isn't a replacement to STD0010, but reveals the disagreement on the roles of MTAs and

Re: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your Misspelling Are Belong To Us]

2003-09-19 Thread Simon Leinen
Yakov Shafranovich writes: > Just to follow up on this - I just spoke to an engineer at Verisign > and he informed me that the SMTP daemon is being replaced in a few > hours with an RFC-compliant one. As for not giving a warning - this > came from a higher policy level at Verisign and he is just an

Re: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your ...

2003-09-19 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 14:27:47 EDT, Dean Anderson said: > What Doug Royer is complaining about is that his mail client previously > told him right away. He didn't have to wait for a bounce. Now he has to > wait for a bounce, and that is a "big change". Oh? Do you have proof that "right away" means

Re: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your ...

2003-09-19 Thread Dean Anderson
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > At 6:17 PM -0400 09/18/2003, Dean Anderson wrote: > >On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >> At 8:51 AM -0700 09/18/2003, Bill Manning wrote: > >> > ok, what about DoC & ICANN agreements w/ VSGN giving them > >> > the authority to c

Re: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your ...

2003-09-19 Thread Neal McBurnett
I've put up a web page about this at: http://bcn.boulder.co.us/~neal/ietf/verisign-abuse.html with technical issues, pointers to relevant discussions, ICANN agreements, contact info, etc. I'd appreciate any pointers to similar efforts, or suggestions for updates. Neal McBurnett

Re: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your ...

2003-09-19 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 15:49:15 EDT, Dean Anderson said: > But you don't look at the SMTP port to find out of the domain is > available. No one has ever used DNS or SMTP to check on whether a domain > is purchasable. This is sophistry. Oh.. so if you're not actually on port 80, but on any one of t

Re: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your ...

2003-09-19 Thread hardie
At 6:17 PM -0400 09/18/2003, Dean Anderson wrote: On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 8:51 AM -0700 09/18/2003, Bill Manning wrote: > ok, what about DoC & ICANN agreements w/ VSGN giving them > the authority to continue to register in and publish > the .COM and .NET domains?

Re: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your ...

2003-09-19 Thread Dean Anderson
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > At 8:51 AM -0700 09/18/2003, Bill Manning wrote: > > ok, what about DoC & ICANN agreements w/ VSGN giving them > > the authority to continue to register in and publish > > the .COM and .NET domains? That looks like an entitlment to me.

RE: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your Misspelling Are Belong To Us]

2003-09-19 Thread bill
ECTED] Subject: Re: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your Misspelling Are Belong To Us] At 2:14 PM +0200 9/18/03, Francis Dupont wrote: >=> IMHO it should reject SMTP connection from the beginning with the >521 greeting described in RFC 1846... People are unhappy about VeriSign breaking the rules

Re: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your ...

2003-09-19 Thread Dean Anderson
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 12:04:31 EDT, Dean Anderson said: > > You have yet explain how is it misreporting anything. It in fact > > reporting that the domain is available for purchase. How is that > > misreporting? > > Well.. let's follow this line of rea

Re: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your ...

2003-09-19 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 14:32:33 EDT, Dean Anderson said: > On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 12:04:31 EDT, Dean Anderson said: > > > You have yet explain how is it misreporting anything. It in fact > > > reporting that the domain is available for purchase. How is

Re: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your ...

2003-09-19 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 15:35:25 EDT, Dean Anderson said: > If you send to more than one recipient, you still only transfer one > message. You've been listening to too many open relay crackpots, instead > of checking into how SMTP works. > > From RFC 821 section 2: > >When the same message is se

Re: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your ...

2003-09-19 Thread grenville armitage
Bill Manning wrote: [..] > Verisign has and continues to publish .COM and .NET zone data > twice each day that is marked with records that indicate > they, Verisign are asserting their rights to publish the > data in those zones. "... publish the data in th

Re: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your ...

2003-09-19 Thread Dean Anderson
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 14:32:33 EDT, Dean Anderson said: > > No, that isn't correct. If you want to purchase a domain, you have to > > check the registry database via whois. > > Why? As you yourself said: "It is in fact reporting that the domain is avai

Re: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your Misspelling Are Belong To Us]

2003-09-19 Thread Dean Anderson
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Keith Moore wrote: > this breaks anything that assumes (quite reasonably) > that query to a a nonexistent domain will return NXDOMAIN. That an invalid assumption to make. It was not made "quite reasonably", but rather was made quite irrationally. In many or most cases, it was

Re: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your ...

2003-09-19 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Dean writes: > I think you have pointed out that this is indeed the function of a mail > server, not a mail client. It is a bug. SMTP makes no distinction between servers and clients. It's not a bug.

Re: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your ...

2003-09-19 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Dean writes: > No, its not valid for a mail client to make direct > connections. There is no distinction between a mail client and a mail server in SMTP. It is perfectly valid for either to deliver mail directly to another SMTP server.

Re: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your ...

2003-09-18 Thread Doug Royer
No, its not valid for a mail client to make direct connections. Can you site any RFC that says that? There are many ISPs that block this. Are they doing something wrong? Orthogonal and unrelated. Mail clients are supposed to connect to their configured mail relays, which has the responsibili

Re: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your ...

2003-09-18 Thread Doug Royer
Dean Anderson wrote: It did that if you sent to any other toplevel domain that had wildcards, and others do. The behavior hasn't changed. Your mail client was making a false assumption. That is a bug in the software. The mail client shouldn't be looking up domains. It should be sending it to t

Re: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your ...

2003-09-18 Thread Keith Moore
> No, its not valid for a mail client to make direct connections. There are > many ISPs that block this. Are they doing something wrong? IMHO yes, but that's between them and their customers. > Mail clients > are supposed to connect to their configured mail relays, which has the > responsibil

Re: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your Misspelling Are Belong To Us]

2003-09-18 Thread Keith Moore
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 09:22:15 -0700 Paul Hoffman / IMC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 2:14 PM +0200 9/18/03, Francis Dupont wrote: > >=> IMHO it should reject SMTP connection from the beginning with > >the 521 greeting described in RFC 1846... > > People are unhappy about VeriSign breaking the ru

Re: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your ...

2003-09-18 Thread Keith Moore
> ok, what about DoC & ICANN agreements w/ VSGN giving them > the authority to continue to register in and publish > the .COM and .NET domains? That looks like an entitlment to me. the very purpose of those agreements - hell, the primary purpose of ICANN, is to constrain how NS

Re: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your ...

2003-09-18 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 12:04:31 EDT, Dean Anderson said: > You have yet explain how is it misreporting anything. It in fact > reporting that the domain is available for purchase. How is that > misreporting? Well.. let's follow this line of reasoning. If I mail to a domain, *and it gets a pointer to

Re: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your ...

2003-09-18 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 11:45:14 EDT, Dean Anderson said: > I think you have pointed out that this is indeed the function of a mail > server, not a mail client. It is a bug. OK Dean, let's go back and look at the original message. On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, Doug Royer wrote: > Before the change if I email

Re: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your Misspelling Are Belong To Us]

2003-09-18 Thread Paul Hoffman / IMC
At 2:14 PM +0200 9/18/03, Francis Dupont wrote: => IMHO it should reject SMTP connection from the beginning with the 521 greeting described in RFC 1846... People are unhappy about VeriSign breaking the rules. But here you are proposing that they follow an *experimental* RFC whose rules were not a

Re: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your ...

2003-09-18 Thread Peter Sylvester
> > ok, what about DoC & ICANN agreements w/ VSGN giving them > the authority to continue to register in and publish > the .COM and .NET domains? That looks like an entitlment to me. Hm, to me publishing all registered entities of a domain is not the same as publishing that th

Re: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your ...

2003-09-18 Thread Dean Anderson
On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, Keith Moore wrote: > > People keep saying that something has been broken. But in fact, nothing > > has been broken, except false assumptions that were false to begin with. > > You're simply wrong, and there have been numerous examples of this. Sounds like a canard. > > NXDOM

Re: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your ...

2003-09-18 Thread Dean Anderson
On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, Dean Anderson wrote: > > > Your mail client was making a false assumption. That is a bug in the > > software. The mail client shouldn't be looking up domains. It should be > > sending it to the relay. The relay then decides w

Re: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your ...

2003-09-18 Thread Bill Manning
% > % Wildcard records make a global assertion for an entire zone. This is not % > % an assertion that VeriSign is entitled to make. VeriSign does not have % > the% right to make assertions about all unregistered domains in NET or COM. % > % % > Can you back up your assertion that Verisign i

Re: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your ...

2003-09-18 Thread Dean Anderson
On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, Keith Moore wrote: > > Your mail client was making a false assumption. That is a bug in the > > software. The mail client shouldn't be looking up domains. It should be > > sending it to the relay. > > No, you're making an incorrect assumption. It's perfectly valid for a >

Re: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your Misspelling Are Belong To Us]

2003-09-18 Thread Francis Dupont
In your previous mail you wrote: People, have you been reading the posts? The stubby SMTP daemon is not an SMTP server, it is simply a program that returns the following set of responses TO ANYTHING THAT IS PASSED TO IT. => IMHO it should reject SMTP connection from the beginning w

Re: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your ...

2003-09-17 Thread Masataka Ohta
Bill; > % Wildcard records make a global assertion for an entire zone. This is not > % an assertion that VeriSign is entitled to make. VeriSign does not have the > % right to make assertions about all unregistered domains in NET or COM. > % > Can you back up your assertion that Verisign i

Re: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your ...

2003-09-17 Thread Keith Moore
> % Wildcard records make a global assertion for an entire zone. This is not > % an assertion that VeriSign is entitled to make. VeriSign does not have > the% right to make assertions about all unregistered domains in NET or COM. > % > Can you back up your assertion that Verisign is -NOT-

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