[dns-operations] "RoadRunner Intercepting Domain Typos" (slashdot)

[Mark Andrews]

> Tony,
> 
> On Feb 27, 2008, at 10:02 PM, Tony Finch wrote:
> > On Tue, 26 Feb 2008, Rich Goodson wrote:
> >> I have a feeling that this is going to become more and more popular  
> >> as
> >> time goes on.
> >
> > Yes, and the financial disincentive is going to make DNSSEC much  
> > harder to
> > deploy.
> 
> Not really.  This type of redirection is generally done at the ISP's  
> caching server.  As such, the only way this would impede DNSSEC is if  
> the ISP blocks their customers from running (validating) caching  
> servers themselves.
> 
> Regards,
> -drc

	One would hope that any cache doing this would look at
	CD and disable the re-write as it is a clear DoS on the
	client.  The client has stated that it wishes to verify
	the answers received and doesn't want intermediate caches
	interpreting the results for it.

	Mark
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