Verisign is now on crack for the .com and .net zones, they've fractured reverse lookups for .com and .net

Felix Tilley ftilley at localhost.localdomain
Wed Sep 17 05:12:14 UTC 2003


In article <bk7h89$1m4p$1 at sf1.isc.org>, "Nico Kadel-Garcia"
<nkadel at verizon.net> Tue, 16 Sep 2003 04:46:01 -0700 wrote:

> Quoted from a security newsgroup:
> 
> 	As of today (2003-09-15) Verisign has hijacked/squatted on ALL unused
> ..com and .net domain names. These unused domains will now resolve to a
> Verisign IP which runs http and smtp. The host will accept incoming
> mail.
> 



As of this hour, Earthlink.net is not resolving the wildcard domains.

Verisign can go to hell.


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