[geeks] Verisign trying to help?

[R. Lonstein]

On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 01:23:24PM -0400, Kurt Huhn wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 13:18:03 -0400
> R. Lonstein wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 12:25:48PM -0400, Kevin wrote:
> > > The typo'd one just times out for me.
> > > 
> > 	[snip]
> > 
> > One possibility is that the nanog folks (among others) are furious and
> > someone upstream of you is null routing it. Their corrupt scheme works
> > from here.
> > 
> 
> I'm fairly furious, and I null'd all lookups for
> sitefinder.verisign.com in my DNS servers.  Now everything simply times
> out.

What sucks, and this is being talked to death on Nanog and (ulp!) 
slashdot, is that you don't get the NXDOMAIN anymore so it's pretty
much goodbye to fixing lame delegations and goodbye to doing lookups
for spam filtering by source.

- Ross