Sunday, August 1, 2004

DNS Attacks

LinuxExposed has an article explaining the basic theory behind the Domain Name System (DNS) and various attacks against it.

Please keep in mind that DNS poisoning is not necessarily a "bad thing"(tm). It is still the only truly scalable method of blocking objectionable web sites and mail servers. I've seen it used at sites with 50K users.

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