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BIND Strikes Back Against VeriSign's Site Finder

Posted by timothy on from the checks-and-balances dept.

BrunoC writes "Following the story about VeriSign's new Site Finder, the Internet Software Consortium promises to release a patch to its (in)famous BIND that will block the controversial Site Finder. Wired News has full coverage of the ISC initiative against this name resolving atrocity."

6 of 582 comments (clear)

  1. Internet standards humor alert by mwise · · Score: 5, Funny

    "VeriSign did not respond requests for comment."

    Isn't that what caused the problem in the first place?

    Thanks, I'll be here all week!

    1. Re:Internet standards humor alert by AndroidCat · · Score: 5, Funny

      "VeriSign did not respond requests for comment." Strange that requests for comment didn't end up at 64.94.110.11.

      --
      One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
  2. Re:Good for BIND by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    At least they could have directed us to some decent pr0n instead.

  3. Re:Yeah, only SPAM, sure. by dm(Hannu) · · Score: 5, Funny
    Transposing letters is not (and never has been) the 'Slashdot effect'.

    Exactly. The correct term for this is Sldahost efcfet

  4. It's a trick... by mseeger · · Score: 5, Funny
    Hi,

    this is just a trick. They just want to get rid of all those obsolete BIND-versions out in the internet.

    So they did this to goat all admins into patching their bind.

    Tricky they are...

    Regards, Martin

  5. Re:Yeah, only SPAM, sure. by platypus · · Score: 5, Funny

    Interesting that it rejects the first recipient, but accepts the second, then bomb on the DATA stage.
    You are thinking too complex for verisign standards ;)

    $ telnet spam.aasfgsdafgsdf.com 25
    Trying 64.94.110.11...
    Connected to spam.aasfgsdafgsdf.com.
    Escape character is '^]'.
    220 snubby4-wceast Snubby Mail Rejector Daemon v1.3 ready
    gfsdfg
    250 OK
    sdfgsdgf
    250 OK
    sdfgsdgf
    550 User domain does not exist.
    sdfgsdgf
    250 OK
    sdgfdsg
    221 snubby4-wceast Snubby Mail Rejector Daemon v1.3 closing transmission channel

    Connection closed by foreign host.