The Internet Software Consortium, a nonprofit that publishes BIND, the software that runs many of the Net"s domain name servers, is about to release an emergency patch to block VeriSign"s new Site Finder service.
"The phone has been ringing off the hook with deeply unhappy customers," he said. "We don"t have a political ax to grind. Whether VeriSign should or should not have done this is not for us to decide. But we have to respond to our customers who are demanding it."
Vixie said that ISC"s customers -- typically ISPs and large enterprises -- needed a fix because VeriSign"s Site Finder broke their spam filters.