Even if you have a local caching DNS server pointing to root DNS level always....
Aren't you still vulnerable because DNS doesn't do authentication? (RSA keys and all that stuff) Couln't I act like a root DNS server and send bogas traffic to your PC causing all kinds of mischief??? How would you protect against *that*? Chris On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 09:04:52AM -0800, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > This list has been very helpful. I believe one of many > > things I've learned is that a caching DNS server provides > > a little more security than a foreign DNS server you don't > > have control over. > > > > This got me thinking.... why not run a caching DNS server > > on *ALL* your PCs then if this is true??? > > > > Why couldn't you run a caching DNS server on that laptop > > you travel with?? How about on that lone PC you have at home? > > How about that PC at the office? It seems almost every > > PC...even a lone PC, can benefit from a caching DNS server right??? > > Sure? Why not? > > In the home LAN, I'd designate one system to be the cache for the entire > LAN. In one of those rare instances of ``taking one's own advice'' this > is exactly what I do at home. > > When I had a working laptop, it did run its own caching nameserver. > > -john ``SLB'' > -- > [email protected] > http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list > -- _______________________________________ Christian Seberino, Ph.D. SPAWAR Systems Center San Diego Code 2872 49258 Mills Street, Room 158 San Diego, CA 92152-5385 U.S.A. Phone: (619) 553-9973 Fax : (619) 553-6521 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________ -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
