Yesterday, Verisign (the company I'd like to see put to death) broke the Internet by redirecting all unregistered .COM and .NET addresses to a page on their site where they run a search-engine. For a lot of good technical reasons, this is a bad idea, and it makes a savage mockery of Verisign's (unbelievably lucrative) monopoly on critical pieces of the Internet's infrastructure.
Today, the makers of the BIND DNS software responded by announcing a patch that will interpret Verisign as damage and route around them.
However, the ISC is about to undercut the Site Finder service with a patch to its BIND software.BIND runs on about 80 percent of the Internet's domain name servers — the machines that translate human-readable Web addresses like www.wired.com into machine-readable Internet addresses used by the Internet's vast network of computers.
The patch will be released by the end of Tuesday, said Paul Vixie, ISC's president.
