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Re: how to protect name servers against cache corruption


From: Paul A Vixie <vixie () vix com>
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 18:08:50 -0700

Noone in the security field has any right to expect any implementation of
DNS to be secure until DNSSEC is widely implemented.

I'm sorry if something I said misled you to believe otherwise.

So BIND 8.1.1 is NOT "immune" to the poisoned resource-record attack? I
ask because you specifically stated that it was. Sorry to nag, I'd just
like to see this clarified to the operations community.

BIND 4.9.6 and 8.1.1 are immune to all known attacks, including the one
Eugene Kashpureff copied and put into wide public use recently.

I know of attacks we are not immune to, which cannot be stopped without
DNSSEC.  My paper, whose URL I gave in the previous message, alludes to
some of these without exactly giving a road map for their use.


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