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Re: New addresses for b.root-servers.net
From: Matt Corallo <nanog () as397444 net>
Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2023 20:46:43 -0700
On 6/3/23 4:17 PM, William Herrin wrote:
On Sat, Jun 3, 2023 at 12:46 PM Matt Corallo <nanog () as397444 net> wrote:I assume RHEL would ship a root hints update during that time, but such things can slip through pretty easily as its not a security update.Hi Matt, It *is* a security update. That's a really great point that I completely missed. After some period of time, the folks running b.root-servers.net should file a CVE against implementations still using the deprecated IP address. The CVE makes it a security issue compelling vendors of any still-supported software to issue an update.
Mmm, good point, it is indeed.Not really sure how you go about filing a CVE for a file that isn't usually a part of a standard software project - I guess that would require some nontrivial amount of work to figure out which distro(s) are still shipping an old copy of the hints file and nag them to upgrade (not sure a CVE would move the needle).
Sadly your usual method of getting CVE notifications for software you run probably wouldn't show for "DNS Root Hint file". You could maybe try just doing it blanket against older resolvers as they also distribute the hints file, but that's kinda rude given its not really an issue in their software and the hints file distributed with bind isn't the one Debian/Fedora are gonna use.
Matt
Current thread:
- Re: New addresses for b.root-servers.net Jan Schaumann via NANOG (Jun 01)
- Re: New addresses for b.root-servers.net Wes Hardaker (Jun 01)
- Re: New addresses for b.root-servers.net William Herrin (Jun 01)
- Re: New addresses for b.root-servers.net Masataka Ohta (Jun 01)
- Re: New addresses for b.root-servers.net Jim (Jun 02)
- Re: New addresses for b.root-servers.net William Herrin (Jun 02)
- Re: New addresses for b.root-servers.net Matthew Petach (Jun 02)
- Re: New addresses for b.root-servers.net William Herrin (Jun 01)
- Re: New addresses for b.root-servers.net Matt Corallo (Jun 03)
- Re: New addresses for b.root-servers.net William Herrin (Jun 03)
- Re: New addresses for b.root-servers.net Matt Corallo (Jun 03)
- Re: New addresses for b.root-servers.net William Herrin (Jun 03)
- Re: New addresses for b.root-servers.net Wes Hardaker (Jun 01)
- Re: New addresses for b.root-servers.net Izaac (Jun 04)
- Re: New addresses for b.root-servers.net William Herrin (Jun 04)
- Re: New addresses for b.root-servers.net Mark Andrews (Jun 04)
- Re: New addresses for b.root-servers.net William Herrin (Jun 04)
- Re: New addresses for b.root-servers.net Masataka Ohta (Jun 07)
- Re: New addresses for b.root-servers.net Izaac (Jun 07)
- Re: New addresses for b.root-servers.net William Herrin (Jun 07)
- Re: New addresses for b.root-servers.net Izaac (Jun 07)
- Re: New addresses for b.root-servers.net Michael Butler via NANOG (Jun 07)