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VeriSign Changes DNS Servers: No ASCII Needed

Posted by timothy on from the eggs-for-omelletes dept.

An anonymous reader points to this story at The Register and this one (in French) at news.yahoo, writing "VeriSign has made changes to the root DNS so that they handle non-ascii names (for .com and .net). Furthemore, an erroneous lookup results in getting a VeriSign IP, not an error message." An excerpt: "The IAB [Internet Architecture Board] feels that the system VeriSign had deployed for .com and .net contains significant DNS protocol errors, risks the further development of secure DNS, and confuses the resolution mechanisms of the DNS with application-based search systems."

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  1. Oh, but that's ok by KDan · · Score: 5, Funny

    We all know we can trust corporations to do the right thing. I'm sure they'll sort it out and it will all be alright. Anyone who says they're trying to screw everyone to get some sort of competitive advantage by breaking well-established protocols is an unpatriotic leftist and should be arrested under the terms of the PATRIOT act and put away to let the good people get on with God's work.

    Daniel

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    Carpe Diem
  2. Re:Adverts. by Ed+Avis · · Score: 4, Funny

    Q. What do you call an error message which contains no useful information?

    A. An advertisement.

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    -- Ed Avis ed@membled.com
  3. Does this mean...? by Temporal · · Score: 4, Funny

    Furthemore, an erroneous lookup results in getting a VeriSign IP, not an error message.

    So, does this mean I will be able to type in "http://shittyassregistrar.com" and get VeriSign?

  4. ah the insecurity by myrashka · · Score: 3, Funny

    I can see it now (taking a previous post accurately pointing out that Web browsers are not the sole users of DNS):

    [on a *nix type machine]

    % telnet iwanttohackdns.com

    Welcome to the Verisign unsecured "no one ever uses telnet" root server configuration system.

    Command? Delete DNS
    Are you sure (Y/N)? Y
    DNS Purged.
    Command? Quit

    Goodbye.

    % telnet myserver.mydomain.com

    Welcome to the Verisign unsecured "no one ever uses telnet" root server configuration system.

    Command? Quit

    Goodbye.

  5. Re:Adverts. by Alsee · · Score: 2, Funny

    Q. What do you call an advertisement which contains useful information?

    A. An error.

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    - - You can't take something off the Internet! That's like trying to take pee out of a swimming pool.
  6. Re:Big assumption by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Quelle bêtise!

  7. http://www.�.com/ by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    http://www.(TM).com/