[plug] Any ISP's on this list? - Verisign adds wildcard A Record to .com/.net DNS

[Cameron Patrick]

On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 08:16:45PM +0800, Onno Benschop wrote:
| What this means is that every unresolvable name will resolve to a
| verisign server (including mail).

Although their mail server looks like it'll just bounce the message with
an error "User domain does not exist" which isn't too different to what
would happen if the domain didn't resolve to anything.

| Summary:
| 	This is *not* good.

Agreed.

CP.

(cameron at erdos ~) telnet 64.94.110.11 25
Trying 64.94.110.11...
Connected to 64.94.110.11.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 snubby4-wcwest Snubby Mail Rejector Daemon v1.3 ready
HELO there
250 OK
MAIL FROM:<me at example.net>
250 OK
RCPT TO:<random at unregistereddomain.com>
550 User domain does not exist.
QUIT
221 snubby4-wcwest Snubby Mail Rejector Daemon v1.3 closing transmission channel
221 snubby4-wcwest Snubby Mail Rejector Daemon v1.3 closing transmission channel
Connection closed by foreign host.


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