VeriSign Changes DNS Servers: No ASCII Needed

Posted by timothy on Sunday February 2, 2003 @12:56AM 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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Posted: 28/01/2003 at 08:22 GMT by You're+All+Wrong · 2003-02-02 01:19 · Score: 0, Offtopic

It's now 02/02/2003 13:20:02 GMT

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GOATSE.CX link above by MikeS2k · 2003-02-02 01:19 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Don't click it unless you like that kind of thing...

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