On Tuesday 20 May 2008 08:38, Florian Weimer wrote: > > You pointed out earlier in the bug log that is is a "critical" (sic) > > bug but there wasn't a fix prepared for etch. > > No, it's not. The prefix containing the old route server address is > still assigned to Bill Manning, so there is no immediate cause for > alarm. Even the fake servers returned the correct address for the L > root, so the priming at the start would have removed the old L root > address. > > We can't fix broken Internet routing. The same thing could happen to > essentially all root servers. Changing addresses compiled/configured > into BIND does not prevent this.
I would suggest contacting the stable release managers to see if they will accept an update for this in the next stable point release. I agree with Florian that it doesn't have direct security implications so an advisory is out of place. Thijs
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