How can verisign do this? are they the owner of .net and .com domains?.
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From: "Gary Palmer" <gjp@???>
To: <exim-users@???>
Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 8:45 AM
Subject: [Exim] Verisign pulls a fast one
> Verisign is adding wildcard DNS records to all of .com and .net pointing
> to one of their servers "as browsers don't return any useful information
> when the user inputs an unregistered domain". This defeats very nicely
> sender DNS verification as now *all* .com/.net domains are valid.
> (Unless you are insisting on MX records for all domains, which is a
> slight violation of RFC)
>
> I strongly recommend EVERYONE add:
>
> 64.94.110.11
>
> to the 'ignore_target_hosts' directive on any/all dnslookup routers (in
> addition to the RFC 1918 entries that are already there, right? :) )
>
> I'm wondering how long it will take for that IP to start showing up on
> DNSBLs.
>
> Gary
>
>
>
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