[ga] Re: Massive, Coordinated Patch To the DNS Released

[Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@xxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 01:02:22PM -0700,
 George Kirikos <gkirikos@xxxxxxxxx> wrote 
 a message of 33 lines which said:

> This is exactly why registry operators should NEVER be judge, jury and
> executioners when it comes to alleged domain abuse, as they could
> inflict damage upon innocent victims. Read the advisory --- ANY name
> server (and thus all the domains on that nameserver) could have been
> compromised.

Read the real advisory (not the Slashdot article) yourself: the
vulnerability is on recursive name servers, not on the authoritative
ones.

http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/800113