in reply to Re: Re: Installing Email::Valid
in thread Installing Email::Valid

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

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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

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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

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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
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