[wildcard-comments] comments

["Mikey Wareing" <lightinthedark@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Verisign is in blatent breach of the original 
contracts for .com and .net TLDs with it's 
sitefinder service.

Under the Functional Specification section
"Nameserver operations for the Registry TLD 
shall comply with RFC 1034, 1035, and 2182."

RFC 1034: Section 4.3.1
"If recursive service is requested and 
available, the recursive response
to a query will be one of the following:

- The answer to the query, possibly preface by 
one or more CNAME RRs that specify aliases 
encountered on the way to an answer.

- A name error indicating that the name does 
not exist.  This may include CNAME RRs that 
indicate that the original query name was an 
alias for a name which does not exist.

- A temporary error indication."

"If recursive service is not requested or is 
not available, the non-
recursive response will be one of the following:

- An authoritative name error indicating that 
the name does not exist.

- A temporary error indication.

- Some combination of:

RRs that answer the question, together with an 
indication whether the data comes from a zone 
or is cached.

A referral to name servers which have zones 
which are closer ancestors to the name than the 
server sending the reply.

- RRs that the name server thinks will prove 
useful to the requester."

RFC 1034: Section 4.3.3
"The contents of the wildcard RRs follows the 
usual rules and formats for RRs.  The wildcards 
in the zone have an owner name that controls the
query names they will match.  The owner name of 
the wildcard RRs is of the 
form "*.<anydomain>", where <anydomain> is any 
domain name.
<anydomain> should not contain other * labels, 
and should be in the authoritative data of the 
zone.  The wildcards potentially apply to
descendants of <anydomain>, but not to 
<anydomain> itself."


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