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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: [IP] VeriSign prepares to relaunch "Site Finder" -- calls
On Tuesday, February 10, 2004 1:02 AM [GMT-5=EST], Scott Savage <[email protected]> wrote: > > When NXDOMAIN returned, the issue disappeared and we haven't tested it > again. I can confirm this same type of issue with several clients of mine that run microsoft networking stuff, suddenly were unable to locate devices on the network (like printers and NT file servers) as soon as the Verisign sitefinder stuff came online. I'll have to let my clients know who to bill when they do this again :-) Actually, I wrote about alot of the issues in my paper at: http://www.sosdg.org/papers/VSGNWCD.html Its not really geared to technical people, but might be useful if talking to end users about the problems associated with sitefinder. Should probably update it with some of the newer issues I've been finding. Unfortunately, when you talk about SiteFinder, what ends up happening is that you can't avoid the financial end of it. There is no technical reason why SiteFinder needs to exist. It is purely a financial reason why SiteFinder exists. If they weren't concerned about money, Verisign would be offering all of the other registars an oppertunity to get involved too, and they wouldn't be selling ads on the site and paid search listings. AOL, MSN, and god knows how many other ISPs implement this internally on their networks without affecting the rest of the world. Of course, I already know that Verisign is going to start saying that you can opt-out of it this time around and how it wont break everything again. We all know that their claims are, well, full of crap. But, its going to end up being how fast Verisign can spin it in their favor. I mean, look at SCO, and compare it to what Verisign is doing. They both don't seem to care how the rest of the world views them, and don't seem to have a problem turning the rest of the world against themselves. Of course, neither realizes that because of their actions, they will face opposition for the rest of their existance. People don't just forget stuff like this. Especially not when it happens multiple times. Anyways, enough of my moaning about the problem for now. If anyone has any real life examples and stories they'd like to share with me so I can add to my paper on the SiteFinder issue, let me know offlist, and I'll add it. -- Brian Bruns The Summit Open Source Development Group Open Solutions For A Closed World / Anti-Spam Resources http://www.sosdg.org The Abusive Hosts Blocking List http://www.ahbl.org
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