At 06:01 PM 7/30/97 +0200, Miguel A. Sanz. RedIRIS/CSIC wrote:

So my questions now:

Does any one know a direct way to reach the InterNIC technical staff to solve this kind of urgent problems?

Flaming them on NANOG seems to work, but you get singed in the process also. Try markk@internic.net. He seemed helpful. From him: "Hostmaster receives at least 20K pieces of mail a day. If you have an operational issue of this nature, feel free to send it to action@internic.net. The people who are responsible for monitoring the roots also read that box." Let us know how [un]responsive action@internic.net is!

Shouldn't there be a specific set up of procedures, forms and communication channels between the managers of the root zone and the TLD managers?

Apparently they're still drafting those.

Any help will be appreciated.

Miguel A. Sanz ES-NIC

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Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 15:05:45 +0200 (MET DST) From: "Miguel A. Sanz. RedIRIS/CSIC" <miguel.sanz@rediris.es> To: "David H. Holtzman" <dholtz@internic.net> Subject: (Fwd) EMERGENCY TLD .ES Cc: hostmaster@nic.es

Please take quick action on this and report back!

We will wait a couple more hours before escalating this to IANA and TLD list.

Regards,

Miguel A. Sanz ES-NIC

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Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 11:49:59 +0200 (MET DST) From: "Miguel A. Sanz. RedIRIS/CSIC" <miguel.sanz@rediris.es> To: hostmaster@internic.net Subject: EMERGENCY TLD .ES Cc: cert@rediris.es, Mark Kosters <markk@internic.net>, hostmaster@nic.es

Dear hostmaster,

I am the technical contact of the top level domain for Spain (".es").

Much to our surprise we discover yesterday that a new unauthorized NS was popping up in everybody's caches for the ".es" zone.

At first we thought that a cache infection attack (the kind of Alternic's against InterNIC) was taking place and spread the word that everybody in the country upgrade to the recent versions of BIND.

However, some places running BIND-4.9.6 and 8.1.1 were also infected!!!

We the went to check InterNIC's database and ... the problem is there!!!

InterNIC has made a change in the delegation of the ".es" zone without our request, knowledge or consent. Instead of the authorized nameservers which are:

SUN.REDIRIS.ES 130.206.1.2 CHICO.REDIRIS.ES 130.206.1.3 PRADES.CESCA.ES 192.94.163.152 NS.EUNET.ES 193.127.1.11 SUNIC.SUNET.SE 192.36.125.2 192.36.148.18 NS.EU.NET 192.16.202.11 RS0.INTERNIC.NET 198.41.0.5 NS.UU.NET 137.39.1.3 MUNNARI.OZ.AU 128.250.1.21 128.250.22.2

You have now:

SUN.REDIRIS.ES 130.206.1.2 CHICO.REDIRIS.ES 130.206.1.3 PRADES.CESCA.ES 192.94.163.152 LINUX2.DYCSA.ES 195.53.97.1 SUNIC.SUNET.SE 192.36.125.2 192.36.148.18 NS.EU.NET 192.16.202.11 RS0.INTERNIC.NET 198.41.0.5 NS.UU.NET 137.39.1.3

For unkown reasons an unauthorized change has been made to the root zone and the InterNIC database. You have placed a bogus NS LINUX2.DYCSA.ES instead of the legal one: NS.EUNET.ES !!!

Please CORRECT this as soon as possible and restart the root server.

We would also like that you open an investigation about this case to know if this has been caused by some InterNIC's internal error or by an intentional ill will request made by someone.

Please keep as inform about your actions to correct this error and of the results of your internal investigation.

Regards,

Miguel A. Sanz (MAS122) ES-NIC

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