[H-GEN] dns problems

Bradley Marshall brad at humbug.org.au
Tue Sep 4 17:44:46 EDT 2001


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On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 11:04:00PM +1000, Jason Henry Parker wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 09:50:23PM +1000, Bradley Marshall wrote:
> > There was apparently a bug in bind 8 that allowed cache
> > poisoning if you use forwarders, and the low ttl on anz.com
> > makes it is easier for this to happen.
> Mmm, okay.  I'm still not sure _how_, but it'll do.

See the following urls.  Note that most of them are a bit old,
so anyone who is running a current nameserver should be fine.

http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-1997-22.html
http://www.ntware.com/2000/bugs/bind__1.html
http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/notes.html in the poison section

Thanks,
Brad
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