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Details of the DNS flaw revealed

Details of the DNS flaw revealed

Posted Aug 13, 2008 18:31 UTC (Wed) by njs (subscriber, #40338)
In reply to: Details of the DNS flaw revealed by smoogen
Parent article: Details of the DNS flaw revealed

djbdns doesn't do anything magic, and the first good answer still wins; it's just that the
patch everyone else had to apply -- to enable source port randomization, which makes it harder
for an attacker to provide a "good answer" -- was already built-in to djbdns.  Now that
everyone's had to patch, djbdns is just as resistant (or not, see the end of the article) as
everyone else.


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