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Re: DNS: Definitely Not Safe?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephane Bortzmeyer)
Wed Feb 14 09:17:04 2007

Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 15:05:53 +0100
From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>
To: MARLON BORBA <mborba@trf3.gov.br>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <s5d2d48e.069@server-trf8.trf3.gov.br>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 09:20:38AM -0200,
 MARLON BORBA <mborba@trf3.gov.br> wrote 
 a message of 21 lines which said:

> Security of DNS servers is an issue for network operators, thus
> pertaining to NANOG on-topics. This article shows a security-officer
> view of the recent DNS attacks.

It may be on-topic but it is full of FUD, mistakes and blatant
b...t. Certainly not the recommended reading for the sysadmin.

The best stupid sentence is the one asking firewalls in front of the
DNS servers... to prevent tunneling data over DNS!


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