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).
