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Mystery flaw crashing DNS servers across the internet
« on: November 17, 2011, 03:46:06 AM »
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by Mark Stockley on November 16, 2011

A zero-day vulnerability is causing BIND 9 DNS servers to crash across the internet. The flaw, described as an "as-yet unidentified network event", appears to be a denial of service vulnerability being exploited in-the-wild. The flaw affects all supported versions of BIND.

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Re: Mystery flaw crashing DNS servers across the internet
« Reply #1 on: November 22, 2011, 07:43:35 AM »
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This sucks, and is probably why I am seeing so much weirdness lately on the internet
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Re: Mystery flaw crashing DNS servers across the internet
« Reply #2 on: November 22, 2011, 08:23:24 AM »
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I specifically posted this because over the last couple of weeks I've been experiencing an immense amount of DNS errors.
Naturally I assumed the problem was with my ISP, but after reading this, it explains a lot...
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Re: Mystery flaw crashing DNS servers across the internet
« Reply #3 on: December 01, 2011, 08:42:22 PM »
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Ja, DNS errors driving me up the wall, I've even had Telkom check the ADSL line, and Cybersmart are affected quite badly by this.
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