Bug 448703

Summary:	New L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET IP address
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4	Reporter:	Tomas Hoger <thoger>
Component:	caching-nameserver	Assignee:	Adam Tkac <atkac>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
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Priority:	high
Version:	4.6	CC:	ovasik, redhat-bugzilla
Target Milestone:	rc	Keywords:	ZStream
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Fixed In Version:	RHBA-2008-0560	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Bug Blocks:	451949

Description Tomas Hoger 2008-05-28 11:03:32 UTC

One of the DNS root servers -- L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET -- has changed it's IP address
recently from 198.32.64.12 to 199.7.83.42.  Current versions of
caching-nameserver configuration-only packages in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1,
3 and 4 include old IP address in the named.ca root zone file.

Updated root zone file can be obtained from:

  ftp://ftp.internic.com/domain/named.root

This change attracted attention due to an occurrence of the multiple
unauthorized DNS servers operating with the old IP address.  This raised
concerns regarding possible misuse of the old IP by some malicious DNS server,
even though no such misuse was confirmed so far:

  http://www.renesys.com/blog/2008/05/identity_theft_hits_the_root_n_1.shtml

For further discussion, see bug #363541.

Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2008-06-18 16:38:39 UTC

An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2008-0560.html