Re: [ga] ISC opens Internet crisis center. <-- Did they just forget the BIND fiasco over Site Finder?

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Stephane and all former DNSO GA members or other interested
stakeholders/users,

  I am sorry to see that you seem to need to inaccurately to a great
extent, defend the BIND knee-jerk Fiasco patches hastily conceived and
recommended to address a non-error use of Wild Cards for Verisigns
Site Finder, with name calling.  It's basically a bit immature and
I am sure to many beneath contempt to do so.

  That unfortunately needing to be said, you Stephany know full
well that ISC at ICANN's prodding in one way or another,
over reacted to Site Finder, and Verisigns use of Wild Cards.
So such SPIN in your response, is not quite good enough to
fool anyone with a reasonable ability to sift through this
sort of PR Damage control spin...  Nice try, but no cigar,
even if they might be the Monica Brand...

  Lets also not forget the BINDplus was not effected negatively
with Verisign/NSI's use of Wild Cards in the Site Finder
service product.  As such it is evident that Legacy BIND
8.x thru 9.x has weaknesses.  So operating in a crisis
mode seems to be far less than adequate to provide
for good stability in the short term and certainly not
over the long haul.

And so, the ICANN/ISC approach to problem solving is
reactive, not proactive and therefore only propagates
it's seemingly never ending disruptive and disgusting
saga...

Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 06:35:38PM -0700,
>  Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote
>  a message of 25 lines which said:
>
> >   I have to wonder, as I am very sure Verisign and and a number of
> > other Site Finder converts, as to whether stakeholders/users have
> > forgotten so soon the BIND adjustment/patches fiasco over trying to
> > address Site Finder?
>
> [Not speaking for ISC, of course, but <disclaimer>AFNIC is a member of
> the BIND forum</disclaimer>.]
>
> This is absolutely ridiculous. There was no fiasco. ISC, maintainer of
> BIND (by far the most widely used software for caching/forwarding name
> servers), addressed very quickly a vocal demand from many of its
> users. ISC released a new version of BIND, there was a bug, then a new
> version, there was also a bug and finally the proper one.
>
> Do note that the new features in BIND to fix the Verisign problem were
> all OFF by default, so it was the responsability of the name server
> administrator to turn them on or not.
>
> There was some technical problems with "funny" cases because the DNS
> is a complicated beast, badly specified (dozens of RFC are
> authoritative when you write or maintain a DNS software), and there
> was a huge pressure from the community so everything was done in a
> hurry (remember that Verisign made no prior warning). Other nameserver
> software, like PowerDNS, which released similar patches, experienced
> the same problems.
>
> These bugs created a few temporary problems, much less than Verisign's
> bold attempt to typosquatt everything in .com/.net.
>
> Sorry for the long message to correct an obvious troll.

Regards,

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Jeffrey A. Williams
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