Security glitch in DNS design

binarysoul

This seems major. Does anyone know about this?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7496735.stm

Edit:

I found the patch released by Microsoft yesterday:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/953230

astorrs

Interesting. Without the technical information it's hard to understand the significance, but from what's written there the key vendors are all taking it seriously (so we probably should too).

marco71

it is quite serious; see some links:
Debian
Sun Solaris
Red Hat
Ubuntu
Cisco
Juniper

darkerosxx

Update on this as a friend linked me to it:

http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1520

Update your DNS servers!