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Security through obscurity

...the network. One way to protect this information is by restricting DNS zone transfers. I'll start with a look at the security implications of... Read more

29 January, 2003 by Scott Lowe

Half of DNS servers vulnerable to attack

...was that over 50 percent of DNS servers still allow recursion and zone transfers, "indicating that the global DNS system is as vulnerable as ever... Read more

20 November, 2007 by Colin Barker

Build a scalable DNS infrastructure

...DNS for scalabilityDNS information can be replicated across multiple DNS servers using zone transfers. For fault tolerance, your network should have at least two DNS... Read more

9 May, 2006 by Deb Shinder

DNS servers 'vulnerable to attack'

Web users are at risk of fraud because 20 percent of DNS servers are running out-of-date software and 75 percent are vulnerable to cache poisoning Read more

25 October, 2005 by Tom Espiner

Watch for top Linux/Unix threats

...DNS (53/udp) to all machines that are not DNS servers, DNS zone transfers (53/tcp) except from external secondaries, LDAP (389/tcp and 389... Read more

22 October, 2002 by John McCormick

Verify DNS records with Dlint

...domain and attempt to do a zone transfer (AXFR). In some cases, zone transfers will be disabled to unauthorized hosts, so keep that in mind... Read more

5 September, 2002 by ZDNet

Comdex 2001: New DNS diagnostics

...year, grabs data directly from the Active Directory and DNS data via zone transfers, then compares zone data to Active Directory data. It also scans... Read more

14 November, 2001 by Todd Volz
DNS and BIND, Fifth Edition 1.0

DNS and BIND, Fifth Edition 1.0

...Securing your name server: restricting who can query your server, preventing unauthorized zone transfers, avoiding bogus servers, etc.* The DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC) and Transaction... Read more

25 December, 2009
Understanding Implications of DNS Zone Provisioning

Understanding Implications of DNS Zone Provisioning

...To gather data, it sweeps 60% of the Internet's domains for zone transfers. 6.6% of them allow to transfer their complete information. It... Read more

22 October, 2008
Posadis 0.50.6

Posadis 0.50.6

...useful for local networks. Posadis supports recent technologies like IPv6 and incremental zone transfers, and it has a concise User Manual which helps you configuring... Read more

19 September, 2002

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