On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 12:02 PM, Paul Hoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:

> At 1:27 PM +0100 8/18/08, Jim Reid wrote:
>
>> The fact is DNSSEC is the *only* game in town for preventing cache
>> poisoning.
>>
>
> Note the subject of this particular thread. A more carefully-worded
> sentence would be "The fact is DNSSEC is the *only* game in town for
> completely preventing cache poisoning." We have methods to reduce an
> attacker's ability to poison caches effectively.


No it is not so little grasshopper.  The best way to secure DNS recursive
servers is to integrate a smart IDS and firewall solution.  Commerce needs
solutions - not more patches to patch the patches that should have been
patched years ago.

cheers
joe baptista

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