Re: Advisory — D-root is changing its IPv4 address

Fri Dec 14 18:06:09 UTC 2012

> > So really stupid question, and hopefully it's just me, do I need to do
> > something
> > on my servers?
> 
> your crontab that updates your root-hints may already have caught the chang=
> e...

That seems like a spectacularly bad idea.  How do you validate the new
root-hints automatically?  What if someone manages to send you something
malicious in place of the correct one?

... JG
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