Re: [PEN-TEST] IP Tunneling over DNS

[Mordechai Ovits <movits () OVITS NET>]

On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 01:06:14PM -0400, Christopher M. Bergeron wrote:
> I just read an interesting post at slashdot:  http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/09/10/2230242&mode=thread
>
> theoretically, someone from inside a secure network could tunnel out (ala Trojan) to punch a major hole through a 
> firewall.  Am I understanding this correctly?

Yes, with the unstated caveat that you need a server on the outside to
complete the tunnel.  No biggee, but it makes it easy to find the otehr side
of the tunnel.

Besides, you could do this with http_tunnel for the longest time. This is
just cuter.

Mordy