pharming.. dns cache insertion...

[Mark Andrews]

> At 5:38 PM -0700 2005-04-08, bruce wrote:
> 
> >  note the humour!! but seriously, how might it be done...
> 
> 	If you wish your message to be taken in jest, I recommend that 
> you sprinkle some smileys (e.g., ";-)" or ":-)") throughout. 
> Otherwise, people are likely to take you seriously.
> 
> >  as a basic question, how many dns servers are we talking about if we simpl
> y
> >  constrain it to the dns servers that are exposed...
> 
> 	It is not possible to determine that number.  Just the 
> delegations alone change quickly enough that you couldn't possibly 
> tell, even if you had somehow managed to get an arrangement with 
> every single other person on the entire planet that allowed you to 
> see a complete copy of all their zones.
> 
> 	You'd spend too much time walking the tree and it would change 
> far too many times during that process.
> 
> >  has anybody ever researched this???
> 
	People used to do this before everyone started restricting zone
	transfers.  It used to take weeks for a single run.

> 	Feel free to give it a try.  Please let us know how it works out.
> 
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> 
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