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DNS hacking: Blacklisting source IP address

Posted Aug 23, 2008 12:06 UTC (Sat) by darwish07 (subscriber, #49520)
In reply to: DNS hacking: Blacklisting source IP address by giraffedata
Parent article: Details of the DNS flaw revealed

Yes, I agree. but what I meant is that UDP puts less restrictions on the sender IP address.

IP forging can happen more easily with UDP since no handshake or any kind of replies are needed. Only the forged packet is enough.

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