Adam Roach <adam@dynamicsoft.com> writes: > Because this is probably a community of interest for the > topic of DNS, I thought it would be worthwhile mentioning > that Verisign has apparently unilaterally put in place > wildcard DNS records for *.com and *.net. All unregistered > domains in .com and .net now resolve to 64.94.110.11, which > runs a Verisign-operated web search engine on port 80. And SMTP on 25/TCP. The current setup breaks setups like example.com 86400 IN MX 10 mail1.xeample.com example.com 86400 IN MX 20 mail2.example.com Previously, MTAs could not resolve xeample.com and would therefore use the secondary. Now, they can, and get a 550 error on RCPT TO:. Granted, the setup has always been erroneous and risky, but breaking this without proper notice is still extremely annoying.