RE: ISC to build dns patch against Verisign's change...

[Geoff Huston <gih@telstra.net>]

?

But this is not an ISP block - its a patch to a name resolver
to ignore gratuitous wildcards in certain tlds. If you field
this patched resolver you can indeed implement your choice.
Is this not precisely what you say you want?

   Geoff



At 12:22 AM 17/09/2003 +0200, Wijnen, Bert (Bert) wrote:
> Mmm... although I do not like what Verisign is doing, I would
> also not want my ISP to BLOCK anything in this realm. I would
> rather have a tool that lets me as an individual or company
> decide what I want to do when I mistype a domain name.
> Does that not make sense?
>
> Thanks,
> Bert
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Steve Bellovin [mailto:smb@research.att.com]
> > Sent: dinsdag 16 september 2003 23:51
> > To: iesg@ietf.org; iab@ietf.org
> > Subject: ISC to build dns patch against Verisign's change...
> >
> >
> > http://www.newsobserver.com/24hour/technology/story/1000588p-7
> > 026637c.html
> >
> > eveloper provides patch to block VeriSign's Site Finder service
> >
> >
> > By ANICK JESDANUN, AP INTERNET WRITER
> >
> > NEW YORK (AP) - The developer of software that essentially guides
> > Web surfers sought Tuesday to neutralize a controversial service
> > designed to help users who mistype Internet addresses.
> >
> > The Internet Software Consortium, the nonprofit organization that
> > develops BIND software for Internet domain name directories, is
> > writing an "urgent patch" for Internet service providers and others
> > who want to block customers from a new Site Finder service from
> > VeriSign Inc.
> >
> > ...
> >
> >
> >               --Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb
> >
> >
> >