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SEO Via DNS "Piggybacking"

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday October 12, 2011 @08:03AM from the slip-in-there dept.

An anonymous reader writes "There is an interesting story over at the SANS Internet Storm Center that shows details on about 50 organizations that have had new machine names added to their DNS zone information. These were then pointed to sites used to boost the search engine cred of pharma, personals, and porn sites. If you outsource your DNS, how would you ever catch something like this?"

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Re:By checking? by petermgreen · 2011-10-12 08:28 · Score: 3, Insightful

How do you know if the records in the zone you transfer are the complete set of records in the live zone?

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Maybe you should not outsource your DNS... by Czech+Blue+Bear · 2011-10-12 08:47 · Score: 4, Insightful

I believe that DNS, along with other IT infrastructure (and accounting) is so crucial that it should never be outsourced. By outsourcing, you are in fact giving away your keys to your webs/infrastructure/money. Of course that all kinds of bad stuff can happen then.