[TriLUG] Verisign's wildcard in .com and .net (fwd)

[Tarus Balog]

On Tuesday, September 16, 2003, at 10:04 AM, Dan Monjar wrote:

>
> This might be interesting to some... from another group I am on.
>

> I'm told that Verisign has inserted a wildcard DNS record into the  
> .com and
> .net TLDs, with the effect that a query on an unregistered domain name  
> now
> resolves to a specific IP address.  This hasn't manifested itself here  
> yet,
> but I guess it will over the next day or so.
>

Heh - this is fun:

bash-2.05a$ nslookup fdjshdfksjhdf.com
Server:  cyclops.emji.net
Address:  64.244.27.30

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:    fdjshdfksjhdf.com
Address:  64.94.110.11

bash-2.05a$ nslookup rywifdifsyeffew.com
Server:  cyclops.emji.net
Address:  64.244.27.30

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:    rywifdifsyeffew.com
Address:  64.94.110.11

-T
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