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Details of the DNS Attack

From: "andrew cooke" <andrew@...>

Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:05:21 -0400 (CLT)

The DNS attack that was mentioned a while back (patches were released, but
the attack wasn't explained) is described here -
http://blogs.buanzo.com.ar/2008/07/matasano-kaminsky-dns-forgery.html

It's quite simple - force lookups of DOESNOTEXIST.example.com and use
those to poison www.example.com.

Andrew

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