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Re: Verisign abusing .COM/.NET monopoly, BIND releases new


From: Peter Busser <peter () trusteddebian org>
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 13:10:47 +0200

Hi!

At least a BIND patch could be useful for ISP's running BIND or even be
reused in DJBDNS and similar.

This page: http://www.imperialviolet.org/dnsfix.html has a patch for DjBDNS.

For now, it is returning the same IP address, but I have no trouble
imagining Verisign evading DNS filters by changing the A records every
now and then. Any solution to prevent Verisigns greed should keep this
in mind.

You could try to do a second query for a wildcard record in the domain and then
match the IP address in the first reply with the IP address given in the
wildcard record reply. That result could be cached for future use. That way
you don't have to hardcode the IP address in the code and it could work for
other domains as well.

Groetjes,
Peter Busser
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The Adamantix Project
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