[78959] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: DNS cache poisoning attacks -- are they real?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Kell)
Sat Mar 26 23:19:49 2005
Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 23:18:30 -0500
From: Jeff Kell <jeff-kell@utc.edu>
To: NANOG <NANOG@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0503262301220.25674@clifden.donelan.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Sean Donelan wrote:
> Here is a link about how Cox Cable uses DNS to block phishing and certain
> malicious sites.
>
> http://www.broadbandreports.com/forum/remark,12922412
If that manipulation is done on their internal servers, its their
business; that isn't uncommon anymore, and in fact, is on the increase
(mea culpa).
However, if an external server is manipulated, that's a different story.
Jeff
