a Strange Deletion

Martin McCormick martin at dc.cis.okstate.edu
Wed Mar 22 21:13:08 UTC 2006


Glenn Satchell writes:
>dhcpd
>uses a TXT record with a hash of the client ID as a key so that it
>knows if it is allowed to delete an A record.

	What would happen if I generated a fake TXT record with 17
randomly-chosen digits such that a hex dump looks like what one sees
in a TXT record?  The record wouldn't work at all, but in this case, I
don't want dhcpd to ever get talked in to removing that record.

	Would the bogus .TXT record cause any unexpected harm
anywhere?

Martin McCormick


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