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Re: how to protect name servers against cache corruption

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas H. Ptacek)
Tue Jul 29 22:53:49 1997

From: "Thomas H. Ptacek"  <tqbf@enteract.com>
To: perry@piermont.com
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 21:33:25 -0500 (CDT)
Cc: tqbf@enteract.com, nanog@merit.edu
Reply-To: tqbf@enteract.com
In-Reply-To: <199707300230.WAA06186@jekyll.piermont.com> from "Perry E. Metzger" at Jul 29, 97 10:30:50 pm

> No, it *is* immune to all variants on *THAT* attack. It isn't immune
> to other sorts of attacks.

I think you are speaking in fairly blatant factual error here, or we are
in micommunication with respect to the meaning of the word "variant".

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