Resolving Everything: VeriSign Adds Wildcards 1291
"(VeriSign is a company which purchased Network Solutions, another company which was given the task by the US government of running the .COM and .NET top-level domains (TLDs). VeriSign has been exploiting the Internet's DNS infrastructure ever since.)
This will have the immediate effect of making network trouble-shooting much more difficult. Before, a mis-typed domain name in an email address, web browser, or other network configuration item would result in an obvious error message. You might not have known what to do about it, but at least you knew something was wrong. Now, though, you will have to guess. Every time.
Some have pointed out that this will make an important anti-spam check impossible. A common anti-spam measure is to check and make sure the domain name of the sender really exists. (While this is easy to force, every little bit helps.) Since all .COM and .NET domain names now exist, that anti-spam check is useless.
VeriSign has published white papers about their implementation and also made some recommendations."
But... (Score:2, Funny)
Strike Back with Poor Typing (Score:4, Funny)
I oughta be able to bring em to their knees in a day or two.
Verisign just DDOSed itself (Score:3, Funny)
Is it just me? (Score:2, Funny)
sreb
Re:wonder of wonders (Score:5, Funny)
wahts the porelbm? (Score:5, Funny)
For example, if my domain name was 'somecompany.com,' and somebody typed 'soemcompany.com' by mistake...
What do you mean, "by msiatke [slashdot.org]"?
I'd rather resolve to goatse.cx (Score:0, Funny)
no i don't.
Re:How can we undo this? (Score:5, Funny)
I think you mean Commander Taco. Or were you talking about that dns thing?
My Rights! My Rights! (Score:2, Funny)
VeriSign has taken over www.lksdjglkjdslkjg44.com! This infringes on my trademark, which I have been using since 21:31 EDT. Unless VeriSign transfers that domain to me, for free, I'll sue!
This is what happens Larry... (Score:5, Funny)
But we can't hate them... (Score:3, Funny)
They are running Linux [netcraft.com].
Just a little humour...
Re:wonder of wonders (Score:5, Funny)
BANZAI!!! Self-DoS Attack of Ownage (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Agreement by typo. (Score:2, Funny)
The Verisign Service(s) are provided to you free of charge.
I can't wait under they start charging for this wonderful service.
Re:Now let's see (Score:2, Funny)
WARNING, DON'T CLICK! (Score:1, Funny)
~~~
Type whatever you want... (Score:3, Funny)
Scuh a walircdd culod be used for good (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Verisign just DDOSed itself (Score:3, Funny)
Go to any machine you have a login on and:
while true; do for i in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0; do wget -O
If you don't have wget, be creative. Substitute curl, maybe. Or mail. They're totally asking for it.
Of course, I'm not *actually* advocating a voluntary distributed denial of service attack against this unbelievable bullshit. That would be irresponsible. Shame on anyone for thinking of it.
Re:Oh common, the workaround is so obvious... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Mail trap (Score:4, Funny)
Everybody wins!
Oh great! (Score:2, Funny)
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/0
Re:Strike Back with Poor Typing (Score:3, Funny)
Drastic times call for drastic measures. (Score:3, Funny)
So if a patched named resolves a domain to an IP node on a DNS-tomfoolery blacklist, it returns 11 instead of 3, ie. FUCK_VERISIGN instead of NXDOMAIN.
libresolv on Solaris, glibc, etc. should be modified accordingly. Perhaps an environment variable determines the behavior: default is to map non-existant, of course.
Re:wonder of wonders (Score:5, Funny)
http://www.veirsign.com [veirsign.com]
Looks like someone beat them at their own game.
Re:Strike Back with Poor Typing (Score:3, Funny)
What are you, crazy? You're saying that if no service exists at an address then nothing should be returned? You obviously don't have a business degree and don't work for Verisign. Returning nothing would clearly waste valuable potential for new business.
Re:Complain to Verisign as well (Score:2, Funny)
From: Patrick Draper <slashdot@pdrap.org>
To: authenticode-support@verisign.com, annel-partners@verisign.com, clientpki@verisign.com, consultingsolutions@verisign.com, dbms-support@verisign.com, dnssales@verisign.com, enterprise-pkisupport@verisign.com, enterprise-sslsupport@verisign.com, info@verisign-grs.com, internetsales@verisign.com, IR@verisign.com, jobs@verisign.com, mss@verisign.com, objectsigning-support@verisign.com,
paymentsales@verisign.com, practices@verisign.com,
premiersupport@networksolutions.com, press@verisign.com,
privacy@networksolutions.com, renewal@verisign.com,
support@verisign.com, verisales@verisign.com,
vps-support@verisign.com, vts-csrgroup@verisign.com,
vts-mktginfo@verisign.com, webhelp@verisign.com,
websitesales@verisign.com, websitesupport@verisign.com,
billing@verisign.com
Subject: Fix the Internet, you broket it!
X-SpamProbe: GOOD 0.0000000 3f0bd9f2ffff366c6e9e732ad3227480
Stop your silly games with the wildcard A records.
Love,
Patrick
--
Patrick Draper | Don't |sig4433@pdrap.org
Austin, Texas | Fear |Father Order runs at a
http://www.pdrap.org | The |good pace, but old Mother
Be Microsoft Free - Use Linux |Penguin |Chaos is winning the race.
Here you go (Score:2, Funny)
import socket
x = 0
while True:
try:
x += 1
dns = "www." + "verisignsucks" + str(x) + ".com"
s = socket.gethostbyname(dns)
print dns, "resolved to", s
except: print "resolving", dns, "failed"
What's next? (Score:5, Funny)
Shocked... (Score:1, Funny)
Who are these verisign paedophiles anyway?
I feel a bit like Aurther Dent (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Complain to Verisign as well (Score:3, Funny)
verisign-sucks.net reaches them fine (Score:3, Funny)
Re:wonder of wonders (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Which domains? (Score:1, Funny)
M$ (Score:1, Funny)
2. Verisign gets *.com & *.net.
3. sitefinder.verisign.com gets more hits than google.com.
4. Verisign switches to latest & greatest M$N technology.
5. Google is dead.
all your .com are belong to us (Score:1, Funny)
Fun Stuff (Score:1, Funny)
Put this in your crontab: (Score:3, Funny)