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Dan Kaminsky Suggests Having Fun with DNS

Posted by timothy on from the bits-is dept.

boogahsmalls writes "A few weekends ago Dan Kaminsky of scanrand fame presented some pretty cool ideas involving DNS that made plenty of heads spin at the LayerOne Technology Conference. Some of his concepts included Voice over DNS and storing Knoppix in a DNS cache. He's also apparently got a couple new tools in the pipe including a scanrand based DNS scanner and a visualization suite. Could another version of Paketto Keiretsu be in the works?" (OpenOffice.org does a great job of opening the PowerPoint slideshow.)

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  1. Nice ideas by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    but who doesn't have Knoppix in the DNS cache already anyway? Welcome to the 21st century buddy.

    1. Re:Nice ideas by Vihai · · Score: 2, Funny

      In soviet russia, Knoppix has a DNS cache... oh nevermind....

  2. use the DNS to store presentations by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'd rather read his slides in binary from IN A records than open powerpoint.

  3. RTFPP? by Nethead · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now we have to Read The Fsckin' Power Point?

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  4. Search Service by OzPhIsH · · Score: 4, Funny

    Gee, maybe they could make the results of any unresolved queries forward users to a handy search page, instead of returning an appropriate 'not found' response!

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  5. Another pointless piece of information: by YouGotServed · · Score: 5, Funny

    Microsoft Powerpoint also does a great job of opening the PowerPoint slideshow.

    1. Re:Another pointless piece of information: by cgenman · · Score: 4, Funny

      I can see where this is going:

      1: Funny retort about clippy, modded +5 insightful
      2: Serious post defending Power Point, modded -1 Flamebait
      3: Humorous post about necessary height of a post to go over one's head, modded +2 interesting
      4: Serious post questioning the connection between wooden posts and the stability of Microsoft Software, modded +2 Funny
      Meta comment about the rediculousness of it all: Priceless.

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    2. Re:Another pointless piece of information: by binux · · Score: 2, Funny
      Meta comment about the rediculousness of it all: Priceless.

      You missed - Post about spelling bee champ in tears.

    3. Re:Another pointless piece of information: by nathanh · · Score: 3, Funny
      Meta comment about the rediculousness of it all: Priceless.

      A Slashdotter who can't spell "ridiculous": inevitable.

  6. Re:Crazy! by flonker · · Score: 1, Funny

    "The sendmail.conf file looks like someone banging there head against the keyboard, after working with it for a while, I can see why."
    (Attribution forgotten, if anyone knows, please tell me.)

  7. Re:Crazy! by MerlynEmrys67 · · Score: 4, Funny
    My favorite joke from years ago was

    Q: What is the difference between a sendmail.conf file and modem noise
    A:

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  8. Re:WTF Is This? by EdMcMan · · Score: 3, Funny

    Once reading the article you would understand.

    If you put the presentation in DNS it would not be a problem.

  9. bad part of the idea by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    The DNS Servers are there for DNS, not files. They are not written or stress-tested as fileservers. DNS requests and responses are small chunks of data. It would be sorta bad if people sending 600 meg isos through the dns system, you know, kinda, broke DNS.

  10. Re:He has an excellent conclusion by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    This guy is amazing! Where does he come up with this stuff! ;)

    I think you mean, "Where does he come up with this cool!"