According to the 2008 DNS Survey, commissioned by network services appliances vendor Infoblox, while some improvements are noticeable, compared to 2007, millions of publicly available DNS servers still allow open recursion, which makes them vulnerable to DoS and cache poisoning attacks.The tests were carried out by t... |
11 November 2008
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Yesterday, Russian physicist Evgeniy Polyakov posted on his blog a proof-of-concept exploit that is able to insert poisoned DNS entries into a patched server. His setup consisted of two desktop computers and a GigE connection. The successful exploit took place in a bit under 10 hours, which could mean that less time ... |
9 August 2008
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If you have ever registered a domain, you might have noticed that you were asked to enter the IP address of two name servers. Those name servers are basically two BIND(9) daemons, running as master and slave, on two different machines. This is a commonly used setup for hosting your own domain; in case one breaks, the... |
16 March 2007
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