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Date:      Fri, 19 Sep 2003 12:09:22 +0200
From:      Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@bellavista.cz>
To:        Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
Cc:        Clifton Royston <cliftonr@lava.net>
Subject:   Re: Any workarounds for Verisign .com/.net highjacking?
Message-ID:  <20030919100922.GV79731@freepuppy.bellavista.cz>
In-Reply-To: <p0521060ebb8d285d36eb@[128.113.24.47]>
References:  <20030916102356.A11571@lava.net> <p0521060ebb8d285d36eb@[128.113.24.47]>

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# drosih@rpi.edu / 2003-09-16 16:58:06 -0400:
> At 10:23 AM -1000 9/16/03, Clifton Royston wrote:
> >  In the meantime I'm trying to figure out if there's some
> >simple hack to disregard these wildcard A records, short of
> >requesting zone transfers of the root nameservers (e.g. via
> >peering with f.root-servers.net) and purging those records
> >out of the zone before loading it.
> >
> >Any ideas, either under djbdns or Bind 9?
> 
> The story at
> http://daily.daemonnews.org/view_story.php3?story_id=4068
> 
> notes that there is a patch for dnscache at:
> http://tinydns.org/djbdns-1.05-ignoreip.patch

    see this one: http://tinydns.org/djbdns-1.05-ignoreip2.patch
    and this PR: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/56951

> I have no idea of how well either of these work.  Use your
> own discretion at applying them.

    djbdns-1.05-ignoreip2.patch seems to work very well here, on three
    boxes; fourth one will follow later today.

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