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Re: DNS cache poisoning attacks -- are they real?

  • From: Randy Bush
  • Date: Mon Mar 28 01:13:03 2005

> And to Randy's point about problems with open recursive nameservers... 
> abusers have been known to cache "hijack".  Register a domain, 
> configure an authority with very large TTLs, seed it onto known open 
> recursive nameservers, update domain record to point to the open 
> recursive servers rather than their own.  Wammo, "bullet proof" dns 
> hosting.

as has been said here repeatedly, you should not be running servers,
recursive or not, on old broken and vulnerable software.

randy





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