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Re: how to protect name servers against cache corruption

  • From: Perry E. Metzger
  • Date: Tue Jul 29 22:42:30 1997 
"Thomas H. Ptacek" writes:
> > Paul has made it clear that there are holes in the DNS protocols that
> > cannot be fixed without DNSSEC. He isn't papering anything over -- he
> 
> Thank you for clearing this up. For the record, my only intention is to
> clarify the facts surrounding the DNS security issues that have been
> popularized by the recent Alternic attacks. I think I have done this. To
> reiterate: BIND 8.1.1 is not immune to all the variants of the attack used
> by the Alternic,

No, it *is* immune to all variants on *THAT* attack. It isn't immune
to other sorts of attacks.

Perry