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Re: Debian + Verisign's .com/.net hijack



On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 11:57:16AM +0100, Andy Coates wrote:
> They've put a wildcard DNS entry for .com and .net to resolve to their
> product called "SiteFinder" which offers a IE/MSN like "Did you mean
> to type ...." services.
> 
> So any domain that doesn't exist, or in the PENDING/DELETE states, or has
> no nameservers associated with it, now resolves.

Ah, so what would happen if many thousands of people ran pings 
and other things against nonexistant names?



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