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98% Of Internet's Main Root Server Queries Are Unnecccary: Should You Be Concerned?

• Comment posted Jul 31, 2003 5:33 pm PDT — by Mark Foster
  A similar issue that adversely affects (non-root) TLD name servers is lame delegation. I'd be very interested to hear how other TLD operators are dealing with this.

Why Site Finder is Breaking MS Outlook & Windows Networking Utilities

• Comment posted Sep 22, 2003 4:30 pm PDT — by Mark Foster
  Some (many?) network admins choose fake TLDs for their local namespace, like .local or .lan or .corp. Those TLDs would not be affected in the same way by this wildcard issue.

Survey Results Expose Widespread DNS Vulnerabilities

• Comment posted Oct 27, 2005 2:53 pm PDT — by Mark Foster
  In October of 2003 a similar survey[1] was perform against the root-zone-listed nameservers. The results were similar - recursion is allowed on way too many root-listed nameservers and zone transfers are not restricted. Because of the hierarchical nature of DNS,…

More Top-Level Domain Wildcards

• Comment posted Aug 31, 2006 5:44 pm PDT — by Mark Foster
  I was surprised to NOT see .cc and .tv listed. Those ccTLDs (and also .bz I think) had wildcards but they must have gone away with the consolidated TLD (ctld) program. As Verisign managed domains one might wonder whether the…