Re: pharming.. dns cache insertion...

> At 5:38 PM -0700 2005-04-08, bruce wrote:
>
> > note the humour!! but seriously, how might it be done...
>
> If you wish your message to be taken in jest, I recommend that
> you sprinkle some smileys (e.g., ";-)" or ":-)") throughout.
> Otherwise, people are likely to take you seriously.
>
> > as a basic question, how many dns servers are we talking about if we simpl
> y
> > constrain it to the dns servers that are exposed...
>
> It is not possible to determine that number. Just the
> delegations alone change quickly enough that you couldn't possibly
> tell, even if you had somehow managed to get an arrangement with
> every single other person on the entire planet that allowed you to
> see a complete copy of all their zones.
>
> You'd spend too much time walking the tree and it would change
> far too many times during that process.
>
> > has anybody ever researched this???
>
People used to do this before everyone started restricting zone
transfers. It used to take weeks for a single run.

> Feel free to give it a try. Please let us know how it works out.
>
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