[27797] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: "Stale" root-server
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Doug Barton)
Tue Mar 14 02:52:43 2000
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Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 23:50:14 -0800
From: Doug Barton <Doug@gorean.org>
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"Forrest W. Christian" wrote:
>
> I just came across the fact that one of the root servers (G) has a stale
> .com zone. (Serial number from 3/10). Of course, my primary DNS server
> seems to prefer G (or any other root server with a problem for that
> matter).
You can add the following to recent versions of BIND 8 to avoid this
problem.
server 192.112.36.4 { bogus yes; };
Yes, that begs the question of how this could be allowed to
happen/continue/etc.....
Enjoy,
Doug
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