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Verisign abusing .COM/.NET monopoly, BIND releases new Sep 17 2003 03:16AM
Thor Larholm (thor pivx com) (2 replies)

Re: Verisign abusing .COM/.NET monopoly, BIND releases new Sep 17 2003 09:28PM
SR (bugtraq rivera za net) (1 replies)

Re: Verisign abusing .COM/.NET monopoly, BIND releases new Sep 17 2003 10:19PM
Damaged Industries (damaged damaged no-ip com) (1 replies)

RE: Verisign abusing .COM/.NET monopoly, BIND releases new Sep 18 2003 08:39PM
bugtraq (bugtraq arcanasystems com)

On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, SR wrote:

> > This is simply amazing, Verisign has just turned the .COM and .NET TLD
> > DNS servers up-side-down for their own economical gain and, in doing so,
> > disrupted network traffic for most of the Internet. Mail administrators
> > who use any non-existant DNSBL to mark email as spam suddenly has all
> > their mails deleted, people using localhost.localdomain.com on their
> > servers for administrative purposes are scrambling to find out the cause
> > of their problems and DNS problems arise everywhere as neg caching is
> > essentially disabled and all DNS caches have to cache each and every
> > randomly typed DNS query.
> >
> > The BIND patch that prevents this should be released Wednesday.

And they're unrepentant:

http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-5078657.html?tag=zdnnfd.main

This may turn out to be the biggest marketing blunder since New Coke (we can
hope).

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Re: Verisign abusing .COM/.NET monopoly, BIND releases new Sep 17 2003 09:19PM
Jose Nazario (jose monkey org)