Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 02:40:54PM +0900, Shawn wrote:
> > I think it will be taken care of based on this I saw on the tlug list=
:
> > > Verislime's latest prank (adding wildcards to the .com and .net GTL=
D
> > >
> > Actually don't worry the BIND root servers are being patched to kill =
off
> > this the work around would take you longer than waiting for the BIND
> > roots to be updated (which will kill off Verisigns B.S.)
> =
> I'm a little dubious as to how the root servers could possibly work
> around this. In any case, Verisign runs several of them, so I can't
> believe they will all be patched in this way.
I believe the patch is basically that root servers are only supposed to
return NS delegation and never A records so the BIND patch simply
ignores A records returned from the root servers when NS was expected.
Easy.
/ Jonas
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