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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: data request on Sitefinder
On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 16:31:45 EDT, "Steven M. Bellovin" <[email protected]> said: > > A number of people havce responded that they don't want to be forced to > pay for a change that will benefit Verisign. That's a policy issue I'm > trying to avoid here. I'm looking for pure technical answers -- how > much lead time do you need to make such changes safely? OK, since you asked.... At least from where I am, the answer will depend *heavily* on whether Verisign deploys something that an end-user program can *reliably* detect if it's been fed a wildcard it didn't expect. Note that making a second lookup for '*.foo' and comparing the two answers is specifically *NOT* acceptable due to the added lookup latency (and to some extent, the attendant race conditions and failure modes as well). Also note that it has to be done in a manner that can be tested by an application - there will be a *REAL* need for things like Sendmail to be able to test for wildcards *without the assistance* of a patched local DNS. And yes, this means the minimum lead time to deploy is 'amount of time to write a "Wildcard Reply Bit" I-D, advance through IETF to some reasonable point on standards track, and then upgrade DNS, end host resolvers, and applications'. Attachment:
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