From: Jeff Kell (no email)
Date: Sun Nov 04 2007 - 10:14:40 EST
Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
> Verizon != VeriSign, despite what people think.
>
> A single provider doing this is not equivalent to the root servers
> doing it. You can change providers, you can't change "." in DNS.
Charter has been doing this for quite some time. If you have
security/network/diagnostic tools where you need a DNS failure to get a
valid result, you're out of luck, they resolve everything, and you only
know something happened if you were doing http to start with. Mistype a
telnet, ssh, ftp, mail, etc hostname and you're in for some considerable
confusion until you figure out what's going on...
Jeff
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