Re: DNS Cache poisoning and pdnsd

2008-07-25 Thread Florian Weimer
* Kapil Hari Paranjape: > According to the following URL Dan Kaminsky's cat's whiskers may already > be out of the bag[*] and source port randomisation may not be enough. Most announcements indicated that source port randomization is only a band-aid, hopefully deployable in the short, and not a l

Re: DNS Cache poisoning and pdnsd

2008-07-23 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Wed, 09 Jul 2008, Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: > The Debian advisory does not mention the status of "pdnsd" w.r.t the > DNS cache poisoning problem. A quick check seems to suggest that > "pdnsd" also randomises the source port while sending out a query. According to the following URL Dan

Re: DNS Cache poisoning and pdnsd

2008-07-09 Thread Florian Weimer
* Pierre Habouzit: > And the code matches the documentation. And yes a new socket is used for each > request if that matters. But it seems to use a weak PRNG (random from libc). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DNS Cache poisoning and pdnsd

2008-07-09 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 09:44:21AM +, Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: > Hello, > > The Debian advisory does not mention the status of "pdnsd" w.r.t the > DNS cache poisoning problem. A quick check seems to suggest that > "pdnsd" also randomises the source port while sending out a query. > > Could

DNS Cache poisoning and pdnsd

2008-07-09 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, The Debian advisory does not mention the status of "pdnsd" w.r.t the DNS cache poisoning problem. A quick check seems to suggest that "pdnsd" also randomises the source port while sending out a query. Could the maintainer of "pdnsd" please confirm this? I do not want to file a pointless bu