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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."

3 of 582 comments (clear)

  1. Sqatting by xpurple · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Now that is domain name squatting taken to a new level.

    Oh well, it was bound to happen at some point...

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    http://www.xpurple.com
  2. Re:Bug your ISP by Draoi · · Score: 1, Redundant
    Interesting that BIND only runs 80% of DNS servers, what is the other 20% made up of?

    Well, there's TinyDNS, djbdns and MaraDNS, just for starters. And whatever those Windows folks use on their server OS.

    Interesting to note that djbdns has already been patched to workaround the Verisign nonsense ....

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    Alison

    "It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education." - Albert Einstein

  3. Already blocked... by lylum · · Score: -1, Redundant
    At the large University I am, this IP address already seems to be blocked.

    I also noticed that Internet Explorer does not route me to the sitefinder address but to the MSN search site, did they already implement some kidn of circumvention as well?