Hi folks, SUSE's root.hint file lists an old DNS root server. (The IP address of l.root-servers.net changed November last year, see http://blog.icann.org/?p=227.) As reported on the blog http://www.renesys.com/blog/2008/05/identity_theft_hits_the_root_n_1.shtml, there are several root servers on this address -- probably only one of them (Bill Mannings's) might be related to ICANN. IMHO, the security consequences of using a DNS root server that can not be trusted is obvious. You might want to fetch ftp://ftp.internic.net/domain/named.root and update your root.hint file yourself. FWIW, I opened a Bugzilla ticket, https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=392173; maybe SUSE will issue a security update. (The story is already on Slashdot, i.e., as public as it can get; no need to keep it on private channels.) Cheers, Joachim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Joachim Schrod Email: jschrod@acm.org Roedermark, Germany -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org