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Bug 448447

Summary: outdated named.ca root zone hints
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: Travers Carter <tcarter>
Component: caching-nameserverAssignee: Adam Tkac <atkac>
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Version: 5.1CC: ovasik, ralph
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Description Travers Carter 2008-05-26 23:14:00 UTC 
Description of problem:
The root hint zone /var/named/named.ca shipped in caching-nameserver is out of 
date, it contains an old address for the "L" root server.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
9.3.3-10.el5

How reproducible:
Always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Compare /var/named/named.ca to ftp://ftp.internic.net/domain/named.cache
2.
3.
  
Actual results:
/var/named/named.ca lists:
;
; operated by ICANN
;
.                        3600000      NS    L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.      3600000      A     198.32.64.12

Expected results:
but ftp://ftp.internic.net/domain/named.cache lists:
;
; operated by ICANN
;
.                        3600000      NS    L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.      3600000      A     199.7.83.42

Additional info:
There also seems to have been an issue around a possibly bogus server
running on the old IP
http://www.renesys.com/blog/2008/05/identity_theft_hits_the_root_n_1.shtml

See also the CentOS bug report for this issue:
http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=2862
Comment 1 Adam Tkac 2008-05-27 10:59:06 UTC 
Already fixed in 5.2

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 363531 ***