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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. Phew by paulhar · · Score: -1, Troll

    Thats all right then. All we need now is Microsoft to fix Windows too and we'll be saved!

    1. Re:Phew by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      Only Jesus saves, my friend. You could have the buggiest operating system in the world, you could have the blackest heart in the world, but if you truly open your heart to Jesus and let the Holy Spirit into your soul you will be saved, as Jesus promised through his disciple Paul.

      God loves you.

  2. ROUTE TACO'S DICK by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    to /dev/null instead of /dev/anus

  3. 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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  4. Re:Has anyone.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    asshat!

  5. 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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  6. 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!