[11638] in bugtraq
Re: Dynamic DNS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brad Knowles)
Wed Sep 1 19:43:46 1999
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Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 00:59:07 +0200
Reply-To: Brad Knowles <blk@SKYNET.BE>
From: Brad Knowles <blk@SKYNET.BE>
X-To: Jethro Tull <jethro@DQC.ORG>, BUGTRAQ@SECURITYFOCUS.COM
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At 8:08 PM -0700 1999/8/28, Jethro Tull wrote:
> All Dynamic DNS services that I know of are vulnerable .
Known problem. DynDNS (as it exists today) is inherently
insecure [0]. There are solutions to this problem underway, but
they're not here yet.
So, this is news to anyone?
[0] Which I guess explains why Microsoft has chosen to use it in
Windows 2000. ;-)
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These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy
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