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Re: Netscape "What's Related"

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (pedward@WEBCOM.COM)
Sat Oct 24 00:57:11 1998

Date: 	Fri, 23 Oct 1998 15:46:33 -0700
Reply-To: pedward@WEBCOM.COM
From: pedward@WEBCOM.COM
X-To:         fsj@terma.com
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
In-Reply-To:  <199810221122.NAA24819@terma.com> from "Flemming S. Johansen" at
              Oct 22, 98 01:22:15 pm

Can anyone say DNS cache poisoning???

dig www-rl.netscape.com

;; ANSWERS:
www-rl.netscape.com.    3452    CNAME   www-rl4.netscape.com.
www-rl4.netscape.com.   3452    A       207.200.73.139

;; AUTHORITY RECORDS:
netscape.com.   64245   NS      NS2.netscape.com.
netscape.com.   64245   NS      NS-ME1.netscape.com.
netscape.com.   64245   NS      NS.CW.NET.
netscape.com.   64245   NS      NS.netscape.com.

;; ADDITIONAL RECORDS:
NS2.netscape.com.       64245   A       207.200.73.80
NS-ME1.netscape.com.    64245   A       209.143.199.14
NS.CW.NET.      172633  A       204.70.128.1
NS.netscape.com.        64245   A       198.95.251.10

@207.200.73.80 version.bind chaos txt
VERSION.BIND.   0       TXT     "4.9.6-REL"

@209.143.199.14 version.bind chaos txt
VERSION.BIND.   0       TXT     "4.9.6-REL"

@204.70.128.1 version.bind chaos txt
VERSION.BIND.   0       TXT     "If you have a legitimate reason for requesting this information, please contact hostmaster@mci.net"

@198.95.251.10 version.bind chaos txt
VERSION.BIND.   0       TXT     "4.9.6-REL"

Hmm, I do seem to have my DNS poisoning script still kicking around too.
(Not that I would ever use it for malicious purposes!)

--Perry

>
> I would like to control this "feature" globally for my LAN, but as far
> as I can see, there are only two ways of doing it: Fascist control of
> Netscape preferences settings on every PC on my LAN, or block
> www-rl.netscape.com in the firewall.
>
> --
>   ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>         Flemming S. Johansen
>         fsj@terma.com
>


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