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Re: The SWAMP

  • From: Perry E. Metzger
  • Date: Mon Sep 09 21:33:58 1996 
Eric Ziegast writes:
> It's DNS servers, not resolvers, that need to update their lists
> of Internet root servers.  The problem (IMHO) is that few sites know
> or care that they have to maintain root server list periodically to
> stay in sync with the rest of the Internet.  One way to attack the
> problem (not solve it) is to require nameserver vendors (IIS, Apple,
> BIND, etc.) to provide the capability for periodic root server list
> updates.

I hate to say it, but the ftp script you list to do this is
insecure. If I knew for a fact taht you were doing this regularly,
you would be meat on the table.

Perry
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