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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.)

3 of 212 comments (clear)

  1. No thanks, by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'd rather my dns just work.

  2. Great Article by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's a pity most of the slashdot crowd won't understand any of its technical merits at all.
    Mark this as flamebait if you will, but come back in a while and read the comments, I promise there will be hardly any discussion of the paper.

    Dan is obviously a very smart guy, I like his ideas about using http tunnel (it's a great program), I'm going to have to give some of these ideas a work out!

    Bob

  3. Crazy! by chill · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Most people are lucky if DNS just works without major headaches.

    I could swear BIND and its config file is considered, along with Sendmail, one of the most convoluted programs in Internetdom. It, again along with Sendmail, is historically also one of the most bug-ridden and exploited.

    And now someone is suggesting futzing around with it?! Why not just change your domain to "rootmeplease.com" and get it over with?

    -Charles

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