Re: Re: Installing Email::Valid

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May the cursed bean-counters at VeriSign grow hives on their various anatomical parts!

Who knows how much validity / sanity check code they have broken with their money-grubbing scheme? One of the most useful (to people who deal with email registration issues) modules now doesn't work quite right. Great! I've always disabled the SMTP authentication (too much overhead for large lists), and relied on all of the other checks to filter out a majority of the bad addresses. This will certainly reduce the effectiveness of the module for me.

Not to mention every other program that has ever been written to check for domain validity is probably now broken. But to break perl modules! The inhumanity!!!

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-HZ

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Re: Re: Re: Installing Email::Valid by tachyon (Chancellor) on Sep 30, 2003 at 05:29 UTC
How stupid is this..... [root@devel3 cgi-bin]# dig may-the-cursed-bean-counters-at-verisign-gr +ow-hives.com ; <<>> DiG 9.2.2 <<>> may-the-cursed-bean-counters-at-verisign-grow-hi +ves.com ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 7959 ;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 13, ADDITIONAL: + 12 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;may-the-cursed-bean-counters-at-verisign-grow-hives.com. IN A ;; ANSWER SECTION: may-the-cursed-bean-counters-at-verisign-grow-hives.com. 900 IN A 64.9 +4.110.11 [download] As you say they have now trashed all email domain validation. But there appears to be a workaround: [root@devel3 cgi-bin]# dig do-not-adjust-your-mind-there-is-a-fault-in +-reality.com ; <<>> DiG 9.2.2 <<>> do-not-adjust-your-mind-there-is-a-fault-in-real +ity.com ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 7723 ;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 13, ADDITIONAL: + 9 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;do-not-adjust-your-mind-there-is-a-fault-in-reality.com. IN A ;; ANSWER SECTION: do-not-adjust-your-mind-there-is-a-fault-in-reality.com. 900 IN A 64.9 +4.110.11 [download] All these non-exitants seem to resolve to a single server so you ought to be able to patch for that (until they break it again) cheers tachyon s&&rsenoyhcatreve&&&s&n.+t&"$'$`$\"$\&"&ee&&y&srve&&d&&print	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Re: Re: Re: Installing Email::Valid by HyperZonk (Friar) on Sep 30, 2003 at 05:43 UTC
Actually, a co-worker and I were discussing this just the other day when he noted that the domains were all resolving to the same IP. In a calmer frame of mind at the time than I was when I wrote the above, I suggested that it might not even be quite so bad if they promised to keep the fakey IP the same. It would still take a lot of code repair to make things work in the expected way again, but it would be fixable at least. So I thought. But in retrospect, they have blatantly abused their power. No one else can say "abracadabra ... domains I don't own are now my own advertising portals!" Only VeriSign can ... and therefore, shouldn't. They've been given a ... well, if not sacred, at least special trust to curate the TLD system. And they've hijacked it for their own profit. In a way that no one can compete with. That's a monopoly, and that is, if not illegal, then ethically questionable. -HZ	[reply]