On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 17:02:59 +0200 "RoDent" <rodent@mighty.co.za> wrote: | Effectively this would amount to "denial of service" attack, but since | there is nothing illegal about making an http request to an invalid | hostname, Verisign will be bringing the denial of service attack upon | themselves, and unfortunately dragging ISP's with them. Why ISP's | haven't publically taken a stance against this yet is fascinating. While I completely share your concern about Verisign's behaviour, I have a higher level concern about anything seeking to disrupt services on the 'net. For some weeks now, several of the abuse-prevention organisations have been subjected to Distributed Denial-of-Service attacks; the attack on SORBS is still continuing, and very few of the networks carrying this DDoS traffic have lifted a finger to either limit or trace the attacking traffic. Which, I have to say, is *most* disappointing. -- Richard Cox