On Sun, 2005-10-30 at 16:25 +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > Manipulating the DNS of a popular service can lead to clients sending > requests to a different address, which can also constitute a massive > distributed attack (see Blaster.E, for example). In a sense, this > attack belongs to a class which doesn't seem to be covered by the > document: reflection through client-side redirection. For example, > the attacker rents ad space on a high-volume site (or compromises the > load balancer in front of the ad-server farm), and places a couple of > hyperlinks there to the attacker's site.
The renting ad space and linking to victim's site example would not be manipulating DNS in any way so would not be relevant to the mentioned document. However attacks involving redirection through compromising a load balancer do relate to DNS and therefore probably should be covered. -- Jasper Bryant-Greene General Manager Album Limited e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] w: http://www.album.co.nz/ b: http://jbg.name/ p: 0800 4 ALBUM (0800 425 286) or +64 21 232 3303 a: PO Box 579, Christchurch 8015, New Zealand _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list [email protected] https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf
