Re: [tlug] Verislime

[Blomberg David <dblomber@example.com>]

On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 23:27, Godwin Stewart wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Have any mail admins out there noticed a direct knock-on effect of
> Verislime's latest prank (adding wildcards to the .com and .net GTLD
> nameservers)?
> 
> Obviously, one can no longer reject mail based on a non-existant FROM
> address in the SMTP envelope because all domains now exist from a DNS point
> of view.
> 
Actually don't worry the BIND root servers are being patched to kill off
this the work around would take you longer than waiting for the BIND
roots to be updated (which will kill off Verisigns B.S.)
> Reminder: any non-existant domain name under .com and .net now resolves to
> 64.94.110.11, where there's a webserver redirecting browsers to
> sitefinder.verisign.com [12.158.80.10] giving the viewer a nice ad for
> Verisign.
you could always fight back for a quick hack and block all email that
resolves to verisigns IPs (opps you did that below)


David Blomberg
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Nihon Libertec
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