Verisign fix
Joseph S D Yao
jsdy at center.osis.gov
Wed Sep 17 20:32:33 UTC 2003
On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 09:32:12AM -0600, Robert Weber wrote:
> If every user of bind did the deligation-only switch, what would be the
> concequence? As I see it, this is more of a suicide pact. Verisign is
> screwed, seeing possibly hundreds of thousands of lookups due to the
> spammers. We are screwed because we no longer cache data for .com, etc
> requiring recursive lookups for everything. Am I misunderstanding
> how this will work?
As I understand it, yes, you are. ;-)
It would appear that the patch allows you to ignore all data in a given
zone except certain "delegation" data, such as NS records. It does not
affect your server's ability to cache data that it's not ignoring. [In
fact, caching data that you ARE ignoring seems kind of like write-only
memory, eh? ;-)]
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Joe Yao jsdy at center.osis.gov - Joseph S. D. Yao
OSIS Center Systems Support EMT-B
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