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Re: Removal of wildcard A records from .com and .net zones

  • From: Ryan Dobrynski
  • Date: Fri Oct 03 18:21:01 2003



to give more notice to the.... hehe.. i think i just wet my pants..


On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, Matt Larson wrote:

> Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 17:50:02 -0400
> From: Matt Larson <mlarson@verisign.com>
> To: nanog@nanog.org
> Subject: Removal of wildcard A records from .com and .net zones
>
>
> VeriSign was directed by ICANN to suspend the Site Finder service by
> 0100 UTC on Sunday, October 5.  We requested an extension from ICANN
> to give more notice to the community but were denied.  We will be
> removing the wildcard A records from the .com and .net zones beginning
> at 2300 UTC on Saturday, October 4.  The former behavior for these
> zones (returning Name Error/RCODE=3 in response to queries for
> nonexistent domain names) will be in place by 0100 UTC on Sunday,
> October.
>
> Matt
> --
> Matt Larson <mlarson@verisign.com>
> VeriSign Naming and Directory Services
>

Ryan Dobrynski
Hat-Swapping Gnome
Choice Communications


Like the ski resort of girls looking for husbands and husbands looking
for girls, the situation is not as symmetrical as it might seem.





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