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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."

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  1. Lot of fuss about nothing by heironymouscoward · · Score: 0, Troll

    MSIE has been doing this for ages, and I never found it to be a problem, but rather more helpful than the old "404 Not found" messages we used to see.

    So Verisign have found a portable way to slice Microsoft's little niche away, and gain some advertising. So what? You type junk into an URL and you expect a civilized answer?

    Actually typing URLs is an anachronism in the linked reality of the web. C'mon, my home page is our local wiki, and all the sites I access frequently are bookmarked as little icons.

    What, again, is the problem here, apart from the fact that Verisign is a hateable entity who seem destined to simply annoy everyone they deal with.

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  2. Why a /. news for Bind? by chrysalis · · Score: 0, Troll

    Other DNS caches like djbdns provided patches to handle this before Bind.

    Why a Slashdot article to specifically announce the late Bind implementation?

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  3. Re:Bug your ISP by ajs · · Score: 0, Troll

    Linux is for people who feel they have to prove something; BSD is for people who don't need to.

    OS/Warp is for people who feel they have to prove something; Windows 3.11 for Workgroups is for people who don't need to.

    Wowza, it really is easy to make empty and yet important sounding claims into sound-bites! Thanks!