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> Alternic is poisoning DNS caches. Upgrade to bind 8.1.1 or 4.9.6.
> 
> > I know this has nothing to do with FreeBSD. But I think it's important
> > to you : have you ever checked up www.internic.net ? The DNS servers
> > have been spoofed and changed to alternic.net. I don't know since
> > when this happened.

What specific problem are you seeing? We're running 8.1.1 and 4.9.6
here. I checked www.internic.net (alias www.ds.internic.net), and it
seems quite normal to me.

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no