I wonder btw why Verisign didn't catch the "typo's" in their
own domains if they think it is that important:
...
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;wwww.verisign.com. IN A
wildcards don't work that way. there are ns rr's in .com for verisign.com,
so you get a referral to those servers no matter whether a *.com wildcard
exists or not.
Paul Vixie wrote:
wildcards don't work that way. there are ns rr's in .com for verisign.com,
so you get a referral to those servers no matter whether a *.com wildcard
exists or not.
I think the point was that if catching typographical errors was so important to verisign, they would have created a *.verisign.com wildcard as well.
-Jack