[158877] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: =?windows-1252?Q?Re=3A_Advisory_=97_D=2Droot_is_changing_its_IPv4_address?=
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Greco)
Fri Dec 14 13:06:34 2012
From: Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net>
To: morrowc.lists@gmail.com (Christopher Morrow)
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2012 12:06:09 -0600 (CST)
In-Reply-To: <CAL9jLaavLSKD2V2yB9VnLNLyP5KAuFAV-4fb+zu3kUcSh69t3w@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> > So really stupid question, and hopefully it's just me, do I need to do
> > something
> > on my servers?
>
> your crontab that updates your root-hints may already have caught the chang=
> e...
That seems like a spectacularly bad idea. How do you validate the new
root-hints automatically? What if someone manages to send you something
malicious in place of the correct one?
... JG
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Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net
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