Bug 448447 - outdated named.ca root zone hints
Summary: outdated named.ca root zone hints
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 363531
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Classification: Red Hat
Component: caching-nameserver
Version: 5.1
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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high
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Adam Tkac
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-05-26 23:14 UTC by Travers Carter
Modified: 2013-04-30 23:39 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2008-05-27 10:59:06 UTC
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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The root hint zone /var/named/named.ca shipped in caching-nameserver is out of 
date, it contains an old address for the "L" root server.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 ***


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