Yes, I will heartily agree with this. Having this functionality be triggered by a wildcard in the DNS records is the wrong approach. It's the application that should be taking care of this if (NXDOMAIN) redirect(preferences->sitefinder_host, url); If verisigin wants to partner with someone to actually host the sitefinder site but have some switch integrated into like IE/Netscape/whatever to use that site, I have no problem with this. It becomes a choice of the individual user to use it and the rest of us don't get screwed by something we have no control over. On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 04:07:53PM +0100, Ray Bellis wrote:
Quoting Rusty Lewis from http://verisign.com/corporate/news/2003/pr_20031007b.html?sl=070804
"We will continue to take feedback from both Internet users and the technical community on how we can ensure that the service is available for the many Internet users who clearly like it."
Well that's very simple Rusty - stop screwing around with *our* DNS and write a plugin for IE to catch NXDOMAIN, just like the Google toolbar does.
That'll allow 90% of the browsing population a *choice*, something the wildcard clearly does not.
Ray
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