Search Again: Re: Working around Verisign power-grab? From: Men & Mice Support Date: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 Time: 6:29:19 pm Installing a patched version of Bind shouldn't, in theory, affect QuickDNS at all. ____________________________________________________________________ Chris Buxton Men & Mice Customer Support Specialist Making DNS Easy At 9:16 PM -0400 9/16/03, Stonewall Ballard wrote: >Solving the problem at the routing level doesn't help. My mail server >(CommuniGate Pro) likes to distinguish real domains from nonexistent ones, >so that it can reject spam with bad reply addresses. > >It would be great if you could say whether patching BIND to recognize the >Verisign response and converting it back to a "no domain" response would in >any way affect QuickDNS. > >Thanks. > > - Stoney > >On 9/16/03 8:12 PM, "Men & Mice Support" <cbuxton@menandmice.com> wrote: > >> We are not going to endorse any such patch, since we have no control >> over them and since we're not about to write one of our own. >> >> If Verisign's action bothers you, solve the problem at the routing >> level, as Jer suggests. It won't affect users outside your network, >> but it's the only reasonably safe solution. >> >> Personally, I think some sort of URL spell-checker is a good idea. >> What they have at the moment seems like a good start. >> ____________________________________________________________________ >> Chris Buxton Men & Mice >> Customer Support Specialist Making DNS Easy >> >> At 1:45 PM -0400 9/16/03, Stonewall Ballard wrote: >>> Is there a M&M-approved way to work around the new Verisign wildcard? There >>> are BIND patches appearing, but I'd like to have some verification from M&M >>> that this wouldn't mess up QDNS. >>> >>> I'm running QDNS on Mac OS X Server 10.2.6. >>> >>> - Stoney >>> >>> -- >>> Stonewall Ballard Stonetics, Inc. >>> sb@stonetics.com http://www.stonetics.com/ >> >>

Messages In This Thread: Working around Verisign power-grab? by Stonewall Ballard on Sep 16, 2003 at 10:49:39 am Re: Working around Verisign power-grab? by Mia''s Virtual Post Office on Sep 16, 2003 at 11:27:16 am Re: Working around Verisign power-grab? by Joe D''Andrea on Sep 16, 2003 at 4:25:26 pm Re: Working around Verisign power-grab? by Mia''s Virtual Post Office on Sep 16, 2003 at 4:35:43 pm Re: Working around Verisign power-grab? by Joe D''Andrea on Sep 16, 2003 at 4:56:54 pm Re: Working around Verisign power-grab? by Mia''s Virtual Post Office on Sep 16, 2003 at 5:02:23 pm Re: Working around Verisign power-grab? by Men & Mice Support on Sep 16, 2003 at 5:13:54 pm Re: Working around Verisign power-grab? by Mia''s Virtual Post Office on Sep 16, 2003 at 5:18:49 pm Re: Working around Verisign power-grab? by Stonewall Ballard on Sep 16, 2003 at 6:17:43 pm Re: Working around Verisign power-grab? by Men & Mice Support on Sep 16, 2003 at 6:29:19 pm Re: Working around Verisign power-grab? by Adam Dennis on Sep 16, 2003 at 7:37:34 pm