[5023] in bugtraq
Re: BIND Nuking
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Brown)
Mon Jul 28 11:05:01 1997
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 1997 23:19:29 +1200
Reply-To: Alan Brown <alan@MANAWATU.GEN.NZ>
From: Alan Brown <alan@MANAWATU.GEN.NZ>
X-To: Aveek Datta <MoNoLiTH+@CMU.EDU>
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
At 00:49 25/07/97 -0400, you wrote:
>This was sent to me by my nameserver administrator. Credit goes
>to him, listed below.
(This workaround won't work for the attack listed, but it's still useful to
know..)
If you're using named 8.*, it can be run out of inittab with the
non-daemonising switch.
On linuxen:
/etc/inittab
bi:2345:respawn:/usr/sbin/named -f
At least this way, should it die, it'll come back within seconds.
AB
