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Re: Change to .com/.net behavior

  • From: Duane Wessels
  • Date: Tue Sep 16 00:55:52 2003 

On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, Matt Larson wrote:

>
> Today VeriSign is adding a wildcard A record to the .com and .net
> zones.

The Web Proxy Auto-discovery Protocol (WPAD) is another reason to
fear and loathe this change.  If your host has a bogus name and
makes a WPAD request, they can send your browser a proxy config
function and take full control of your browsing.

Not that they would ever stoop so low...  *cough*

Duane W.