Re: [sitefinder-tech-discuss] Pseudo code please

[Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>]

--On Thursday, October 16, 2003 10:40 AM -0400 Kee Hinckley 
<nazgul@somewhere.com> wrote:

> I'd like to see some pseudo code.
>
> 1. Given a host name in .com/.net, determine whether the host really

I think you would prefer:

1. Given a host name in .com/.net, reliably, through the use of DNS
  alone, determine whether the host really exists.

> exists. 2. Given a domain name in .com/.net, determine whether the domain
> really exists, or whether it has been configured to *look* like a
> Verisign wildcard domain. 3. Given a host/domain, determine whether one

I think my proposal for 1 would cover 2.

> should be able to send mail to it.

:-)
> Prior to any SiteFinder release I would expect real libraries in (at
> least) C and Perl.  Those libraries should handle caching and timeout of
> the *.TLD results.  And they should not require duplicate lookups (which
> means that either you need to duplicate the entire set of DNS APIs, or
> you need to have a library that takes the normal results of a given
> lookup and returns the answer).  In addition they should allow for easy
> expansion to include logic for other wildcard TLDs from other TLD
> contractors.  I don't know how you're going to easily implement all of
> that, but it's obviously cheaper for you to do it once than for thousands
> of companies to do it separately.
I'd also like to see Verisign's plan for reimbursing everyone for the
development they need to do as a result of their greed.  I think these
two things are at similar probability.


> None of this consists of an acceptance of the wildcard.  We've spent
> thousands of dollars dealing with the Verisign wildcard, I just want to
> minimize our future costs. --

Exactly.  The wildcard records are not acceptable to the operational
community.  They should not be reinstated.

Owen


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