Re: Verisign abusing .COM/.NET monopoly, BIND releases new

[SR <bugtraq@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> 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