Re: Verisign to Make Money from Typos

From: Adam Selene (nospam@vguild.com)
Date: Sat Sep 13 2003 - 16:27:16 EDT


> Not to mention that it breaks all applications depending on ns
> lookups for host verification, f.i. Mail servers and anti spam tools.

Mail severs and anti-spam tools ought to see if the sending domain
has MX records. Although some may not just to avoid the recursive
query.

I'd have presumed Versign doesn't want to receive spam for all these
domains, however their .CC implementation appears to prove this
wrong.

> set quertype=MX
> opensrs.cc

Non-authoritative answer:
opensrs.cc MX preference = 10, mail exchanger = snubby.enic.cc

    Adam



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