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Re: A list of (mostly) technical consequences of TLD wildcards

  • From: Rik van Riel
  • Date: Sat Sep 27 11:33:41 2003 
On Fri, 26 Sep 2003, Duane Wessels wrote:

> I've been collecting a list of things that are broken, or might break,
> now that the two most populated TLDs have A and MX record wildcards.

Makes me wonder why Verisign didn't use a (less harmful?) CNAME
wildcard ...

Rik
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