Description of problem: The root hint zone /var/named/named.ca shipped in caching-nameserver is out of date, it contains an old address for the "L" root server.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
Already fixed in 5.2 *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 363531 ***