Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-Id: <5.2.0.9.2.20030303215029.02dda4a0@pop3.cris.com> X-Sender: rrschulz@pop3.cris.com Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2003 21:53:04 -0800 To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Randall R Schulz Subject: Re: why is bash trying to access my DNS? In-Reply-To: <1046755222.23310.37.camel@milo> References: <5.2.0.9.2.20030303205644.02eeb590@pop3.cris.com> <5.2.0.9.2.20030303194254.02a82a30@pop3.cris.com> <5.2.0.9.2.20030303194254.02a82a30@pop3.cris.com> <5.2.0.9.2.20030303205644.02eeb590@pop3.cris.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed David, At 21:20 2003-03-03, David Means wrote: >On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 23:59, Randall R Schulz wrote: > > Geoffrey, > > > > ... > > > > Oops. I mean what data can sneakily be sent via a DNS request? > > > > Randall Schulz > >Actually, plenty. Historically, Bind has been easily >hacked. Although it's been a while since a good vulnerability was >found in Bind, that doesn't mean there's not an unknown hole in it >which could be exploited. Please be specific. What information can be elicited by the DNS server from the DNS client when the client makes a DNS request? I really think there are more important things to worry about, but I'd like to learn how I might be wrong. >-- >David Means Randall Schulz -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/