[juneau-lug] Re: Verisign DNS goofiness

  • From: Myron Davis <myrond@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 17:31:22 -0700

Hi James!
That's not all, take a look at their robots.txt, denies all robots,
which means for sites like webarchive.org which read robots.txt and
archive websites when it reads them it say's , ah ha you want to
remove my site, and the archive of the site is lost :(.

ISP's down south are adding functionality to fix it (reverse it back
to the old NXDOMAIN)and I hope GCI/ACS/the state do the same thing.

My opinion is this:
DNS = Directory Service
DNS != Search Engine

I put my complaint in to ICANN on this issue.

Well there are patches now.

-Myron

On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, James Zuelow wrote:

> I'm sure most of you have seen this on the web and/or AKLUG list, but it
> is still fun to play with.
> 
> Verisign decided that if you mis-type a domain name, you should end up at
> the Verisign web page.  So they've configured their DNS servers to list
> their search page for domains that don't exist.  You can test this with
> the host command:
> 
> host werasdsdvdadarewqw34d.com
> host asdfaeasefdavad.com
> host randomstringhere.com
> 
> all return the same IP address.
> 
> The problem is that there is no such thing as a non-existent domain
> anymore, so anti-spam filters that check for a valid DNS address won't
> work anymore, since EVERY domain will check out. Spammers can just make
> domains up out of the air, and must be absolutely loving it.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> James
> 
> 
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