Re: Debian + Verisign's .com/.net hijack
Dale Amon (amon@vnl.com) wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 11:57:16AM +0100, Andy Coates wrote:
> > They've put a wildcard DNS entry for .com and .net to resolve to their
> > product called "SiteFinder" which offers a IE/MSN like "Did you mean
> > to type ...." services.
> >
> > So any domain that doesn't exist, or in the PENDING/DELETE states, or has
> > no nameservers associated with it, now resolves.
>
> Ah, so what would happen if many thousands of people ran pings
> and other things against nonexistant names?
>
Pings are being blocked AFAIK, but there are many ports open (mail for
example). Best bet is to search the NANOG lists (www.nanog.org), whole
lotta information and discussion about it there.
Andy.
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