Re: DNS Spoofing

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"Ace Fekay [MVP]"
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> In news:u$6B5cNzFHA.3408@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
> Charlie Tame <charlie@xxxxxxxxx> made this post, which I then commented
> about below:
>> Not necessarily for a system hosting multiple websites.
>>
>> www.charlietame.org resolves to 66.7.164.213 (Crsnic) but put the
>> numbers in and you get www.speedhost.com which is the hosting
>> company. They don't look remotely related.
>>
>> I think that would (or at least could) be the result of spoofing but I
>> reckon unless you are talking a real big company with it's own
>> servers you are more likely dealing with the above.
>>
>> Wendel or Ace might have a better idea of what the odds are of
>> multiple site hosts Vs dedicated.
>>
>> Charlie
>
> Hi Charlie,
>
> As you said, this is typical of many companies offering virtual hosting. I
> would suggest for Zeno if he wants an IP to point to a specific name, to
> host that zone name on his own nameservers, and either get the reverse
> zone delegated to him or contact the ISP who owns the block to create a
> specific PTR for his needs.
>
> If he's worried about cache posoining, that can be checked off in DNS
> properties, Advanced tab. It's normally checked by default with Win2000
> SP4 or newer.
>
> Ace


Thank you, his question was one of the few DNS questions I actually know
part of the answer to :)

I find with a lot of the MS set up docs that they start well but refer back
to numerous 3 or 4 letter acronyms that then take an hour each to read up
on, by which time I've usually forgotten what I was trying to achieve in the
first place :) It does not help that when you are not doing this kind of
thing all the time the memory tends to fade.

Charlie


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