Re: Article in Times of India Mumbai about a newly discovered bug in BIND

[Suresh Ramasubramanian <mallet@xxxxxxx>]

On 03/02/01 19:02 +0530, Vikrant Dhawale spewed into the LI bitstream:

> Hi did you all read the article in Times of India, Mumbai on editorial page
> on 31 Jan Wednesday about the newly discovered bug in BIND software which
> could cause disruption in Internet traffic if used by crackers. It says

Very old news

> that particular DNS server. It also says that if the crackers crack into
> one of the 13 root DNS servers located at Tokyo, London, Stockholm and US

The root servers were upgraded just about instantly.  In fact, the ISC (which
maintains bind, dhcp and inn) runs one of the root servers :)

> then much larger portions of the Internet will get affected. There were
> also some comments from Cricket Liu who has coauthored the book DNS and
> BIND (Oreilly).
 
 Nice - but old news, sadly.

 	--suresh

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