On Feb 18, 2010, at 12:10 AM, Masataka Ohta wrote:
> For you, your ISP is, representing the Internet, responsible for the proper 
> delivery.

Your point?

You are aware, of course, that some ISPs are actively engaging in DNS response 
modification, right?

> To your surprise, reasonable security by network operators is
> not so new. Highly commercial telcos have been offering it for
> about 100 years.

Ignoring for a second that the Internet isn't the telephony system 
(intelligence in the network is in different places), there have been MITM 
attacks against the telephony system.

> Cache poisoning is a problem of poor implementations to handle
> additional information including glue.

No.

Cache poisoning is ALSO a result of the fact that the path between source and 
destination is not protected.

Regards,
-drc

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