September 18, 2003

Earthlink to Verisign: Piss Off

It's been 48 hours since Verisign broke the Internet, and only a day since ISC released a workaround. The next step is to see whether the major providers deploy a workaround for the Verisign corruption. In particular, I'm curious what AOL, MSN, and Earthlink choose to do.

It turns out Earthlink may have acted already. I have their cable Internet service at home. If I try to look up a bogus domain, I get an error rather than the address of the Site Finder service. 

    $ host www.die-verisign-scum.com
    Host www.die-verisign-scum.com. not found: 2(SERVFAIL)

If the Verisign corruption was being passed through, I'd expect to see an answer that said: 

    www.die-verisign-scum.com. has address 64.94.110.11

There are two perplexing parts to this, however. First, the error returned is unexpected: SERVFAIL rather than NXDOMAIN. Second, Earthlink is running BIND 8.2.3-REL, and I'm not aware of patches being available for this version.

I'm a little confounded by the results. Maybe some DNS guru can explain what I'm seeing.

Posted by chip at 05:44 PM to: The Net
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Burn in hell Verisign...
http://dc.internet.com/news/article.php/3081611 http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/22344.html I think Versign Sitefinder is a

Via: Mutant Mumblings on September 23, 2003 02:05 PM

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Wait, nobody has registered "www.die-verisign-scum.com" yet?

Posted by: Adam Rice on September 18, 2003 09:32 PM

Verisign is being sued, albeit by someone with a shady past themselves.

Posted by: ttrentham on September 19, 2003 10:01 AM
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