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Re: Removal of wildcard A records from .com and .net zones

  • From: Matt Levine
  • Date: Fri Oct 03 18:00:19 2003

On Oct 3, 2003, at 5:50 PM, Matt Larson wrote:

VeriSign was directed by ICANN to suspend the Site Finder service by
0100 UTC on Sunday, October 5.  We requested an extension from ICANN
to give more notice to the community but were denied.  We will be
So now you care about giving notice the community? That didn't seem high on your priority list when you implemented it.


removing the wildcard A records from the .com and .net zones beginning
at 2300 UTC on Saturday, October 4.  The former behavior for these
zones (returning Name Error/RCODE=3 in response to queries for
nonexistent domain names) will be in place by 0100 UTC on Sunday,
October.

Matt
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Matt Larson <[email protected]>
VeriSign Naming and Directory Services


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Matt Levine <[email protected]>
"The Trouble with doing anything right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was." -BIX