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Submission + - Entire .SE TLD Drops off the Internet (pingdom.com)

Submitted by Icemaann on Tuesday October 13, 2009 @10:41AM

Icemaann writes: Pingdom and Network World are reporting that the .SE tld dropped off the internet yesterday due to a bug in the script that generates the .SE zone file. The .SE tld has close to one million domains that all went down due to missing the trailing dot in the SE zone file. Some caching nameservers may still be returning invalid DNS responses for 24 hours.

Submission + - New DoS Vulnerability in All Versions of BIND 9 (isc.org)

Submitted by Icemaann on Tuesday July 28, 2009 @07:52PM

Icemaann writes: ISC is reporting that a new, remotely exploitable, vulnerability has been found in all version of BIND 9. A specially crafted dynamic update packet will make BIND die with an assertion error. There is an exploit in the wild and there are no access control workarounds. RedHat claims that the exploit does not affect BIND servers that do not allow dynamic updates. This is a high priority vulnerability and DNS operators will want to upgrade BIND to the latest patch level.

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