> This is simply amazing, Verisign has just turned the .COM and .NET TLD > DNS servers up-side-down for their own economical gain and, in doing so, > disrupted network traffic for most of the Internet. Mail administrators > who use any non-existant DNSBL to mark email as spam suddenly has all > their mails deleted, people using localhost.localdomain.com on their > servers for administrative purposes are scrambling to find out the cause > of their problems and DNS problems arise everywhere as neg caching is > essentially disabled and all DNS caches have to cache each and every > randomly typed DNS query. > > The BIND patch that prevents this should be released Wednesday. djbdns already has a patch (make that two patches). They are available from djbdns.org