On 20/11/2009, at 12:39 PM, Brett Fenton wrote: > Perhaps you can tell me why any DNS provider would out of hand see this as > something that is bad for an end user? Because DNS is not the web. > > a) They are only doing it on failed lookups (different story if they were > pushing content on valid lookups, and I think they understand this as well) In which lies a multitude of sins. See slides 13 - 18 of http://sel.icann.org/meetings/seoul2009/presentation-ssac-26oct09-en.pdf In case you don't know (and this is not meant to be patronising) the authors of that view, the SSAC, are _the_ committee that safeguards the security of DNS and have the power to do so. > > b) If you want to see a 404, you can opt out of the system If only DNS were just about HTTP. kind regards Jay -- Jay Daley Chief Executive .nz Registry Services desk: +64 4 931 6977 mobile: +64 21 678840Received on Thu Nov 19 2009 - 16:44:17 UTC
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