Vulnerability to cache poisoning -- the rest of the solution

Mark Andrews Mark_Andrews at isc.org
Mon Jul 14 22:53:32 UTC 2008


> Will BIND randomize query TCP source ports as well (when TCP is
> required) with these new patches?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Josh

	TCP doesn't need to randomise the port.  Your TCP stack
	should be randomising the 32 bit TCP sequence number it
	uses when establishing a connection.  If it doesn't, get a
	new OS as the one you have is ancient and full of security
	holes.

	This makes TCP much harder, but not impossible, to spoof
	than UDP.

	Mark
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