[isalist] Re: FW: [Full-disclosure] Microsoft DNS resolver: deliberately sabotagedhosts-file lookup

  • From: "Thomas W Shinder" <tshinder@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 18:25:49 -0500

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Ha!
It'll certainly reveal their leanings.

Thomas W Shinder, M.D.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: isalist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:isalist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Thor 
> (Hammer of God)
> Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2006 5:34 PM
> To: isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [isalist] FW: [Full-disclosure] Microsoft DNS 
> resolver: deliberately sabotagedhosts-file lookup
> 
> http://www.ISAserver.org
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>   
> 
> Let's see if this reply makes it to Bugtraq.  There was no 
> problem in the
> insult post getting on there (in response to the Chicken 
> Little post of "Oh
> MY GOD, MS has SABOTAGED DNS!!!" post)
> 
> Anyone taking odds?
> 
> t 
> 
> ------ Forwarded Message
> From: "Thor   (Hammer of God)" <thor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 15:31:17 -0700
> To: Bugtraq <bugtraq@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Conversation: [Full-disclosure] Microsoft DNS resolver: deliberately
> sabotagedhosts-file lookup
> Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] Microsoft DNS resolver: deliberately
> sabotagedhosts-file lookup
> 
> Yet more evidence that if you want to offend security 
> professionals with
> condescending posts that contain conspiracy theories, all you 
> have to do is
> send from an obviously forged address, include sweeping 
> insults against an
> entire class of professional, mention something about how "M$ 
> wind0ze" is a
> child's toy, and you'll certainly get your post on Bugtraq.
> 
> t
> 
> On 4/16/06 8:40 AM, "no.spam@xxxxxxxx" <no.spam@xxxxxxxx> 
> spoketh to all:
> 
> > Obnoxious, sure, but not hard to beat. (Assuming for some 
> insane reason you
> > are actually still using Windows for anything other than 
> playing games)
> > 
> > You just add an entry in your DNS server with a zone 
> matching the hostname
> > that you want to override. And if they have the IP addresses of
> > MSFT-controlled DNS servers hardcoded, you just add an iptables (or
> > equivalent) entry in your firewall (note - this is a 
> seperate device than your
> > wintendo PC, not a peice of software running on your PC)
> > 
> > 
> 
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