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Re: Verisign abusing .COM/.NET monopoly, BIND releases new
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (SR)
Wed Sep 17 17:48:10 2003
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 23:28:35 +0200
From: SR <bugtraq@rivera.za.net>
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> This is simply amazing, Verisign has just turned the .COM and .NET TLD
> DNS servers up-side-down for their own economical gain and, in doing so,
> disrupted network traffic for most of the Internet. Mail administrators
> who use any non-existant DNSBL to mark email as spam suddenly has all
> their mails deleted, people using localhost.localdomain.com on their
> servers for administrative purposes are scrambling to find out the cause
> of their problems and DNS problems arise everywhere as neg caching is
> essentially disabled and all DNS caches have to cache each and every
> randomly typed DNS query.
>
> The BIND patch that prevents this should be released Wednesday.
djbdns already has a patch (make that two patches).
They are available from djbdns.org
