Am Thursday 12 August 2004 15:16 schrieb Bart Silverstrim: > > Abusing the DNS to directly transfer files etc is not appropriate as > > the DNS > > infrastructure is not ready for such kind of "abuse". > > Give it time...someone's going to do it.
Well, people have tried to abuse it before fortunately they can be rather easily blocked because the DNS system is strictly hierarchical. > I'm surprised someone hasn't found a hole in DNS that would allow it to > act as a way to distribute viruses via DNS records yet... Provided there is a bug in the resolver or DNS server code somewhere of course you can attack systems using malicious DNS records. There have been several examples in the past. I will stop now in this thread because we are becoming seriously off topic. Regards, -- martin Dipl.-Phys. Martin Konold e r f r a k o n Erlewein, Frank, Konold & Partner - Beratende Ingenieure und Physiker Nobelstrasse 15, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany fon: 0711 67400963, fax: 0711 67400959 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by Shop4tech.com-Lowest price on Blank Media 100pk Sonic DVD-R 4x for only $29 -100pk Sonic DVD+R for only $33 Save 50% off Retail on Ink & Toner - Free Shipping and Free Gift. http://www.shop4tech.com/z/Inkjet_Cartridges/9_108_r285 _______________________________________________ Clamav-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clamav-users
