[17958] in bugtraq
Re: Killing ircds via DNS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (van der Kooij, Hugo)
Fri Dec 8 00:52:06 2000
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Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 22:12:09 +0100
Reply-To: Hugo.van.der.Kooij@CAIW.NL
From: "van der Kooij, Hugo" <Hugo.van.der.Kooij@CAIW.NL>
X-To: David Luyer <david_luyer@PACIFIC.NET.AU>
To: BUGTRAQ@SECURITYFOCUS.COM
In-Reply-To: <200012060902.eB692xD09017@typhaon.pacific.net.au>
On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, David Luyer wrote:
> The bug is triggered by returning a 128-byte answer to an A-record query, eg,
> a 128-byte A-record response to a reverse DNS lookup on the client IP. The
> fix should be self-evident.
I'm not that good in coding.
But isn't requesting an A record a normal DNS request? (Get an IP address
by the given name.) A reverse DNS query would be for a PTR record.
(Getting the name by an IP address.)
Hugo.
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