Hey, SiteFinder is back, again...

Mark,

> All you have to do is move the validation to a machine you
> control to detect this garbage.

You probably don't need to bother with DNSSEC validation to stop the
Verizon redirection. All you need do is run a caching server.

  Yep.

> dnssec-enable yes;
> dnssec-validation yes;
> forward only;
> forwarders { <Verizon's caching servers>; };

Why bother forwarding?

  It was just to prove that you could detect this coming out
  of a ISP's servers.

> dnssec-lookaside . trust-anchor <dlv registry>;

You forgot the bit where everybody you want to do a DNS lookup on
signs (and maintains) their zones and trusts and registers with <dlv
> (of which there is exactly one that I know of and that one
has 17 entries in it the last I looked). You also didn't mention
that everyone doing this will reference the DLV registry on every non-
cached lookup. Puts a _lot_ of trust (both security wise and
operationally) in <dlv registry>...

  There are also other lists of trust anchors.

  With 17 entries there arn't a lot of queries that need to
  be made to have the entire name space covered by cached
  NSEC records which DLV will use.

> All lookups which Verizon has interfered with from signed zones
> will fail.

Yeah, and Verizon customers would get a timeout (after how long?)
instead of a more quickly returned A (or maybe a AAAA) RR to a
Verizon controlled search engine. Not really sure the cure is better
than the disease.

  But then you can log a complaint that DNSSEC doesn't work
  using their caching resolvers. Or this just gives you
  the heads up to find the web form to change the servers
  returned by DHCP. There is contributed code to do this
  linkage for BIND. Or to manually update the forwarders.

  i.e. it's useful for those who use ISP's that havn't yet
  gone over to the dark side. :slight_smile:

Also not sure what the point is -- most common
typos are already squatted upon and validly registered to a adsense
pay-per-click web page, typically a search engine (e.g.,
www.baknofamerica.com). Seems to me the slimeballs have won yet
again...

  That's a different issue on a different battle front.

  Mark