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Florian Weimer wrote:
severity 449148 wishlist
tag 449148 -security
thanks
* Faidon Liambotis:
You pointed out earlier in the bug log that is is a "critical" (sic)
bug but there wasn't a fix prepared for etch.
No, it's not. The prefix containing the old route server address is
still assigned to Bill Manning, so there is no immediate cause for
alarm. Even the fake servers returned the correct address for the L
root, so the priming at the start would have removed the old L root
address.
Even without the security tag, this is certainly not "wishlist" since
the old address for L is currently not responding to queries.
I'm leaving it to the maintainer, however, to avoid a bts war :)
We can't fix broken Internet routing. The same thing could happen to
essentially all root servers. Changing addresses compiled/configured
into BIND does not prevent this.
We can't, no, but we can make sure our users are using the current
root-servers; a routing attack on those would be taken more seriously, I
guess.
Thanks,
Faidon
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