I'm going to hack my BIND so it'll discard wildcard RRs in TLDs, as a matter of reducing the flood of advertising junk reaching my desktop. I think BIND & resolver developers would do everyone a service by adding an option having the same effect. Thank you, VeriSign, I will never do business with you again. You are as bad as any spammer lowlife simply because you leave everyone with no choice to opt out of your advertising blitz. --vadim On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, Matt Larson wrote:
Today VeriSign is adding a wildcard A record to the .com and .net zones. The wildcard record in the .net zone was activated from 10:45AM EDT to 13:30PM EDT. The wildcard record in the .com zone is being added now. We have prepared a white paper describing VeriSign's wildcard implementation, which is available here:
http://www.verisign.com/resources/gd/sitefinder/implementation.pdf
By way of background, over the course of last year, VeriSign has been engaged in various aspects of web navigation work and study. These activities were prompted by analysis of the IAB's recommendations regarding IDN navigation and discussions within the Council of European National Top-Level Domain Registries (CENTR) prompted by DNS wildcard testing in the .biz and .us top-level domains. Understanding that some registries have already implemented wildcards and that others may in the future, we believe that it would be helpful to have a set of guidelines for registries and would like to make them publicly available for that purpose. Accordingly, we drafted a white paper describing guidelines for the use of DNS wildcards in top-level domain zones. This document, which may be of interest to the NANOG community, is available here:
http://www.verisign.com/resources/gd/sitefinder/bestpractices.pdf
Matt -- Matt Larson <mlarson@verisign.com> VeriSign Naming and Directory Services