-----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On Behalf Of Paul Vixie Sent: October 16, 2003 7:36 PM To: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: [Fwd: [IP] VeriSign to revive redirect service]
ken is right and i apologize for the confusion. most of the early patches to bind8 and djbdns that i saw were dependent on the sitefinder address, and as such, would have enabled nameserver administrators to break _sitefinder_. isc's patches for bind9 enable nameserver administrators to break only the _redirection_ to sitefinder.
But aren't we back at the same argument we had a few weeks ago about what is SiteFinder? Some people argue SiteFinder is the thing at sitefinder.verisign.com and, hence, is different from the wildcard that points to it. So your patch breaks the redirection (and personally, I shudder at calling an A record redirection, but perhaps that's a bias from years in the DNS business with customers who throw that word around in all kinds of inappropriate contexts) Others, like myself, would argue that SiteFinder is VeriSign marketing's brand name for the wildcard record and the thing it points to. With that definition, the ISC patch does break SiteFinder... Vivien -- Vivien M. vivienm@dyndns.org Assistant System Administrator Dynamic DNS Network Services http://www.dyndns.org/