January 13, 2004

Also, companies that have incorrectly formatted their DNS servers to get information directly from the DNS root servers maintained by VeriSign will stop receiving updates on Feb. 9, leaving those servers and the Internet users who rely on them out of step with the rest of the Internet, he said.

"The damage won't be catastrophic, but some DNS servers could stop receiving updates," he said.

While there is general agreement within the technical community that VeriSign has the right to make the serial number changes, there is also suspicion about the move, especially after the feud over VeriSign's controversial Site Finder service in 2003, which redirected requests for nonexistent Web addresses to a Web site maintained by VeriSign.

VeriSign complied with an Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) request to shut down Site Finder after ICANN complained that Site Finder hobbled antispam filters and automated tools like Web spidering applications, and hampered the ability of some applications to determine whether or not an Internet domain existed.

"There's distrust of VeriSign on a basic level and (the Site Finder dispute) removed any level of trust for many system administrators," Larholm said.

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IT World Canada

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