Search Again: Re: DNS Expert From: Men & Mice Support Date: Thursday, February 17, 2000 Time: 9:39:00 pm At 9:56 AM -0500 2/17/2000, Allan Reichert wrote: >On Thursday, February 17, 2000, Mark@pageworks.co.uk wrote: > >I friend of mine was ribbing me as usual about how wonderful > >Windows is and how sad the Mac is and all the great tools he's > >got on Windows. > > > >So while he sat next to me I ran DNS Expert on his domain, and > >all the errors it uncovered soon shut him up! > > > >We then ran it on microsoft.com, I expected it to be near > >perfect. But it was far from it, with DNS Expert reporting dns > >servers being vunerable to spoofing and mail servers being > >vunerable to mail relaying. > >Here, Here!!! ÝI have done the same kind of thing here in the US >with MediaOne, a very large national cable/Internet Service >Provider. ÝThey accused us (a fully-networked school system running >ALL services on Macs) of having problems related to e-mail. ÝI >tested their DNS system with DNS Expert and uncovered 23 printed >pages of errors, including MX and DNS records pointing to devices >that were not providing these services. > >Armed with this info, I was able to force them to correct most of >the problems. ÝWhile I was at it, I enquired what platform they >administrated from. Ý Since they indicated Windows, I turned them on >the Windows version of DNS Expert, so that they could check and >maintain things themselves. > >Excellent work, Men&Mice!!! Thanks for your comments, both of you. BTW: Microsoft contacted us about DNS Expert, specifically about why it says their server is spoofable, given that they claim to have fixed that in SP4. We explained that DNS Expert actually performs a spoofing attack to get its results. They did some testing of their own, and determined that, while they had in fact created a fix for the problem, the fix was turned off by default. There's now a page in their knowledge base database explaining how to enable this fix. ____________________________________________________________________ Chris Buxton cbuxton@menandmice.com Men & Mice http://www.menandmice.com Makers of: QuickDNS Pro

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