Versign creates man-in-the-middle attack on DNS

[Neil Johnson]

On Monday 15 September 2003 09:50 pm, Tim May wrote:

>
> I didn't get a Verisign page...I go the usual error.
>
> "Could not open the page http://www.thisisjunk55666.com/ because the
> server www.thisisjunk55666.com could not be found."

Try:

http://www.bfafasfas.com

Word on the North American Network Operators Group (NANOG) mailing list is 
that some major ISP's are null routing the address of the verisign server in 
protest.

The DNS name for the site you are redirected to is 

http://sitefinder.verisign.com . It's IP Address is 64.94.110.11

If you can't get to the Address, it has probably been null-routed.

There is an article on slashdot already:

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/16/0034210

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