Search Again: Re: Spoofing From: Men & Mice Support Date: Thursday, November 11, 1999 Time: 12:07:00 am Spoofing was fixed somewhere in the 2.1.x series (2.1.2?), but you can unfix it quite easily, using forwarding. If you have forwarding turned on (forwarding all outside queries to your ISP's server, for example, to take advantage of their theoretically larger DNS cache), then your server becomes just as vulnerable as that server. If it's vulnerable, then so is yours; if it isn't, then yours isn't either. HTH At 6:52 PM +0000 11/10/99, Simon Forster wrote: >Hi all > >OK, 'nother question (average out at around one every quarter I think). > >Recently I was checking a domain using the most excellent DNS Expert when >it returned a new and frightening error - namely that our DNS server is >vulnerable to spoofing. > >GULP. > >I'm fairly confident that previously, our DNS server was given the all >clear by DNS Expert. So what's changed? > >And the funny thing is we're running QDNS as our DNS server. > >Have I done something to open up a vulnerability or is this DNS Expert >being over zealous - it reports every name server as being vulnerable to >spoofing! > >Or am I being really dumb and this can be ignored if you're running >remote diagnostics? > >Puzzled AND confused. > >Simon Forster ><srf@gjint.co.uk> > >--------------------------------------------------------- >FMG Communications, 175 Munster Road, London, SW6 6DA, UK >Tel: 44 (0)171 731 6461, Fax: 44 (0)171 736 1425 ><http://www.fmgcommunications.co.uk/> >--------------------------------------------------------- ____________________________________________________________________ Chris Buxton cbuxton@menandmice.com Men & Mice http://www.menandmice.com Makers of: QuickDNS Pro

Messages In This Thread: Spoofing by Paul Willis on Oct 7, 1998 at 10:10:00 am Re: Spoofing by Michael Reid on Oct 18, 1998 at 6:28:00 pm Spoofing by Donovan Rittenbach on Jun 5, 1999 at 8:51:00 pm Re: Spoofing by Men & Mice Support on Jun 9, 1999 at 6:00:00 am spoofing by jmcleod@moosehead.net on Sep 2, 1999 at 6:48:00 pm Re: spoofing by Mia''s Virtual Post Office on Sep 2, 1999 at 7:01:00 pm Re: spoofing by Men & Mice Support on Sep 3, 1999 at 7:43:00 am Spoofing by Simon Forster on Nov 10, 1999 at 6:52:00 pm Re: Spoofing by andrew kagan on Nov 10, 1999 at 7:03:00 pm Re: Spoofing by Men & Mice Support on Nov 11, 1999 at 12:07:00 am Re: Spoofing by Simon Forster on Nov 11, 1999 at 11:08:00 am