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Identity Theft Hits the Root Name Servers

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the i-don't-think-i-am-who-you-think-i-am dept.

aos101 writes "The Renesys blog has an interesting story about networks advertising the old address space of the L root name server after ICANN changed the IP address last November. These networks were also running root name servers on the old IP address of the L root name server up until last week, so any DNS servers still using the old IP address might have been getting their answers from these bogus name servers. A very cursory examination by Renesys of one of these bogus servers found that it appeared to be providing correct responses, which might be why no one noticed the problem. As Renesys points out, the volume of traffic to a root server is staggering, so the people running these bogus root servers must have had a reason. What did they get out of it?"

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  1. fgsd by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    HAHAHA

  2. The real story by nawcom · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - Certain witnesses have reported this morning that a peculiar man at a local Starbucks started violently masturbating in front of his Macbook. After detaining the man, co-workers found out that he was sending finger packets to port 79 of the L root name server, which helps provide addresses to hostname requests on the internet.
    Some witnesses' testimonials report that he started to mumble, "Hit-it-hit-it-hit-hit.." in a monotone voice right before whipping his wang out. One Barista who witnessed the verocious masturbatory session claims that he has seen the man spoken to before, replying to the name "Cowboy Neal". New information will be reported as it comes in. Stay tuned.