BoS: Nuke attack? No, bug in DNS! (fwd)

[Mike Scher]

On Thu, 16 May 1996, Vipul Ved Prakash wrote:

> I think this is the main cause of all strange things happening on the
> net for last few days. 
[quoting q quote of Karl Denninger:]
> > > There are a series of bad nameserver records floating around on the net
> > > which are blowing up BIND versions 4.9.4 (REL and T5B) and possibly other
> > > releases as well.  

My employer experienced this problem -- I thought it was related to the
cashe clearing problem in 4.9.4 on some platforms and upgraded to 4.9.4P1
(FreeBSD 2.1.0) -- which appears to have solved the problem for us. 

info-sys.home.vix.com:/pub/bind/release/4.9.4/bind-4.9.4-P1.tar.gz

Not sure if it -really- fixes the problem or if we've been lucky since.

      -M

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