Re: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your Misspelling Are Belong To Us]

On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, Vernon Schryver wrote:

> If AOL and Microsoft don't immediately make releases of IE and Netscape
> that treat 64.94.110.11 the same as they treated an NXDOMAIN (and
Semantically, you'd want to treat 'arbitarynonexistentdomain.com' as
NXDOMAIN if the 'A' record matches the 'A' record on '*.com'.  Hardcoding
arbitary[1] IP addresses into programs is bad.

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Bruce.

[1] Yes yes, lots of people have hard-coded RFC-mentioned addresses into
    code.