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Re: Killing ircds via DNS
From: Adam J Herscher <ahersche () ENGIN UMICH EDU>
Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2000 08:26:05 -0500
The word is that the only vulnerable ircds are ones based on the original dalnet ircd df. Hybrid code, comstud code, etc are not affected by this bug. it's archaic. On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, van der Kooij, Hugo wrote:
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. -- Hugo van der Kooij; Oranje Nassaustraat 16; 3155 VJ Maasland hvdkooij () caiw nl http://home.kabelfoon.nl/~hvdkooij/ -------------------------------------------------------------- This message has not been checked and may contain harmfull content.
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- Killing ircds via DNS David Luyer (Dec 07)
- Re: Killing ircds via DNS van der Kooij, Hugo (Dec 08)
- Re: Killing ircds via DNS David Luyer (Dec 11)
- Re: Killing ircds via DNS Adam J Herscher (Dec 11)
- Re: Killing ircds via DNS Robert Feldbauer (Dec 11)
- Re: Killing ircds via DNS Piotr Kucharski (Dec 11)
- Re: Killing ircds via DNS David Luyer (Dec 12)
- Re: Killing ircds via DNS Darren Reed (Dec 13)
- Re: Killing ircds via DNS Chris Mason (Dec 12)
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- Re: Killing ircds via DNS Sean Kelly (Dec 13)
- Re: Killing ircds via DNS David Luyer (Dec 12)
- Re: Killing ircds via DNS van der Kooij, Hugo (Dec 08)