Re: WINS attack?

[sarnold () WILLAMETTE EDU (Seth R Arnold)]

Well, there is a reason why the samba documentation mentions a few times
that one should have only ONE WINS server on a network. I would love to test
what happens, but don't really feel like invoking the wrath of the network
admins here. Hehe. :)

On Thu, Feb 10, 2000 at 02:03:41PM +0000, Bryce Walter wrote:
> Has anybody looked at the possibility of stealing WINS registrations?
>
> Spoof the name/service release of a server then register that name to your
> own IP.  I'm not sure right off what that would get you (besides a DoS), but
> it could be an interesting excercise.
>
> regards,
> Bryce Walter
>
>
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