On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 02:40:54PM +0900, Shawn wrote:
>
> I think it will be taken care of based on this I saw on the tlug list:
> <from tlug>
> > Have any mail admins out there noticed a direct knock-on effect of
> > Verislime's latest prank (adding wildcards to the .com and .net GTLD
> > nameservers)?
> > Obviously, one can no longer reject mail based on a non-existant FROM
> > address in the SMTP envelope because all domains now exist from a DNS
> > point
> > of view.
> >
> Actually don't worry the BIND root servers are being patched to kill off
> this the work around would take you longer than waiting for the BIND
> roots to be updated (which will kill off Verisigns B.S.)
I'm a little dubious as to how the root servers could possibly work
around this. In any case, Verisign runs several of them, so I can't
believe they will all be patched in this way.
--
Ben Hutchings
compatible: Gracefully accepts erroneous data from any source
Received on Fri Sep 19 11:46:54 2003