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Re: F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET moved to Beijing?


From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer () nic fr>
Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2011 12:33:44 +0200

On Sun, Oct 02, 2011 at 05:40:23PM +0000,
 Janne Snabb <snabb () epipe com> wrote 
 a message of 32 lines which said:

$ dig +short +norec @F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET HOSTNAME.BIND CHAOS TXT
"pek2a.f.root-servers.org"

The next time, I suggest to also run "data" queries such as "A
www.facebook.com" or "A www.twitter.com" to see if there is hard
evidence of an actual security problem. (Most articles on this case
mentioned that "we have no proof there was a rewriting of answers from
the F-root instance".)

 


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