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BIND Patches Make Bad Situation Worse

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the screwing-with-the-infrastructure dept.

An anonymous reader writes "After .COM and .NET started using a wildcard, the internet community busily started creating patches to various pieces of software to circumvent this. It was said that this was a grave problem to the internet. Several official BIND patches were announced over the next few days. However, it turns out they weren't necessarily too well thought through. Usage of the patch unexpectedly broke at least 7 Top Level Domains, ISC announced 3 weeks later, after users started having problems. The .NAME registry has sent a formal letter to ICANN's Security and Stability Advisory Comittee to warn against using the BIND patch, which they will look into in their next meeting. The intention may have been good, but... Stability? Anyone?"

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  1. I'll play the part of ICANN... by pergamon · · Score: 3, Funny
    ...in an appropriate response to .name's letter:

    Dear (dot)name,

    Since (dot)name provides such a useful and valuable service to the Internet community, we will immediately take action to address your--

    DELETED!
  2. Re:Must be a Unix thing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I'm using Windows 2K and I haven't noticed any problems. I have been experiencing 500 Internal Server Errors with Slasdhtot lately, but I'm pretty sure that isn't a BIND thing. I checked task manager and BIND isn't running. Also, I can't ping Slashdot either. Something is wrong.

    you hit that on the head... yes something is wrong and you can fix it easily...

    first search your /winnt or /windows directory for a teddy bear icon. this is the verisign virus that causes sitefinder to run. you need to delete that.

    now every time something act's wierd you need to simply press ALT-F4 and it will correct the problem.