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[wildcard-comments] Verisign DNS abuse

  • To: wildcard-comments@xxxxxxxxx
  • Subject: [wildcard-comments] Verisign DNS abuse
  • From: Ben Arnold<noaddress@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2003 15:30:47 -0700 (PDT)
  • Sender: owner-wildcard-comments@xxxxxxxxx

Verisgns actions caused a DOS for a weekend. A temporary glitch in a companies 
DNS server caused it to fail to respond. Versign immediately decided that this 
was a non valid address and so returned its sitefinder IP. Which being a valid 
IP address got cached by other DNS servers in the tree. Hence when the real DNS 
server came back online, it was never queried as the bad address had been 
cached. A total screw up of the DNS system. Report errors as errors!!!

I have signed and I agree with the petition at http://www.whois.sc/verisign-dns/

- Ben Arnold





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