Thanks for the link. For anyone who is patching their BIND servers details are here. You add this to named.conf (if what is shown on the patch page seems a little obique :-) 

zone "com" { type delegation-only; };
zone "net" { type delegation-only; };

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Happiness, all is back to normal :-)

[root@devel3 root]# dig @localhost verisign-are-pirates.com

; <<>> DiG 9.2.3rc4 <<>> @localhost verisign-are-pirates.com
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 12600
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;verisign-are-pirates.com.      IN      A

;; Query time: 116 msec
;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(localhost)
;; WHEN: Tue Sep 30 07:26:26 2003
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 42

[root@devel3 root]#

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cheers

tachyon

s&&rsenoyhcatreve&&&s&n.+t&"$'$`$\"$\&"&ee&&y&srve&&d&&print

In reply to Re: Re: Verisign Hijack - Patches may be available by tachyon
in thread Verisign Hijack all possible .com .net domains and destroy Email::Valid, Net::DNS, gethostbyname() etc by tachyon

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