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Paul Vixie And David Maher On VeriSign Wildcarding
chromatic writes "The O'Reilly Network has just published an interview with Paul Vixie, chairman of the board of the Internet Software Consortium and a primary author of BIND. Topics include the recent VeriSign controversy, ISC's BIND patch in response, and other potential issues that might come to light in the near future." On a related note, dmehus writes with a link to the letter sent by David Maher, chairman of the Public Interest Registry -- the .org registrar, to ICANN President and CEO Paul Twomey. "The letter says that it supports ICANN's call for VeriSign to voluntarily suspend SiteFinder and the Internet Architecture Board preliminary position paper. It goes on to say that PIR will not be implementing any DNS wildcard to the .ORG zone. It urges ICANN to stand its ground, but also to implement a policy preventing registries from taking this kind of unilateral action in the future." The letter is in .doc format, but AbiWord and OpenOffice.org both open it fine.
Keep in mind that Vixey wrote Bind, which means he also can't tell a buffer overflow from a hole in the ground. I'm sure the details of NXDOMAIN and 404 errors is entirely beyond his comprehension.
$ host irc.niggerjewfagsandthemidgetsthatlovethem.como st not found.
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Still, the same thing. But yes, my browser defaults to Verisign's page. But why doesnt host too return a valid IP?
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