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DNS servers 'vulnerable to attack'
News Many DNS servers are wrongly configured or running out-of-date software, leaving them vulnerable to malicious attacks, according to a survey published on Monday. Internet Systems Consortium's BIND software, which performs the domain name resolution...
[October 25, 2005, 17:55]
DNS servers 'vulnerable to attack'
Talkback DNS servers 'vulnerable to attack' Get over yourself! DNS unsafe! DNS poisoning, use to be an issue and use to be reported along with the virus du jor but, the problem was fixed and that is why we don't hear about DNS poisoning anymore.
[October 26, 2005, 14:32]
Half of DNS servers vulnerable to attack
News The security of DNS continues to be an issue for network administrators, despite the availability of more secure DNS servers such as BIND 9, according to a survey released on Monday by network appliance company, Infoblox.
[November 20, 2007, 12:37]
DNS servers 'vulnerable to attack'
Talkback Grumpy, you forget that plenty of admins out there don't get passed behind the Next, Next, Finish install because that was how what they bought got sold. Sure, that leaves plenty of room for all sorts of problems but until you figure out to make it...
[October 27, 2005, 23:10]
Migrating From Solaris 9 Enterprise on Sun Fire V440 With Bind 8.3.3 to Solaris 10 Enterprise on Dell PowerEdge R900 With Bind 9.3.5-P1
White Papers The Dell PowerEdge R900 is an excellent server for upgrading critical Domain Name Service (DNS) servers from BIND 8 running on Solaris 9 to BIND 9 running on Solaris 10. This Migration Guide reviews the approach that Principled Technologies (PT...
[August 7, 2009, 1:20]
Comdex 2001: New DNS diagnostics
News DNS servers are often a single point of failure that could cause your company's Web sites to vanish. A single point of failure -- in this case, the sole router for Microsoft's DNS servers -- caused many of the company's principle sites to vanish...
[November 14, 2001, 14:56]
Dejal Simon
Downloads It checks web pages, FTP and DNS servers, local or remote ports, and other services for changes or failures, and notifies you via e-mail, sound, speech, Twitter, HTML reports, and other means. Services include Web (HTTP) to check web pages...
[November 25, 2009, 19:20]
Simple DNS Plus
Downloads Thanks to DNS servers we surf the Internet using names such as "www.simpledns.com" instead of impossible to remember IP addresses. DNS servers translate these domain names into machine readable IP-addresses needed to locate the requested web-server...
[November 17, 2009, 5:32]
Bulldog: Problems are over. Users: No they're not
Talkback Bulldog's DNS servers are a joke, they will randomly stop working and could be out for minutes or hours. During the outages, I cannot visit websites and have to resort to Pipex's DNS servers to get me by.
[November 7, 2005, 20:05]
DNS Lookup Plus
Downloads DNS Lookup Plus is a utility application that allows users to query a specified DNS server or their carrier's DNS servers for common DNS records. It features specify DNS server by name or IP, use device's current DNS servers, device makes...
[September 3, 2009, 8:19]
Telewest users suffer network blues
Talkback Apparently it was a problem with DNS Servers. I also heard (albeit a rumour on irc) that it was a US Hacker competition part of which was to apply DOS attacks to UK ISP DNS Servers. I'm on ntl: And the DNS problem was mentioned in their server...
[November 26, 2003, 12:32]
Detection and Prevention of DNS Query PTR Record-Based Distributed Denial-of-Service Attack
White Papers The syslog messages of the topdomain DNS servers in Kumamoto University were statistically investigated when having receiving a large amount of DNS query packets like a Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack.
[June 24, 2009, 16:02]
VeriSign spreads the DNS risk
News VeriSign plans to significantly increase the number of DNS servers it operates, a move it says will make a key part of the Internet's infrastructure more resilient to attack. Over the next year, VeriSign aims to place additional replicas of one of...
[May 20, 2005, 16:05]
Characterizing Large DNS Traces Using Graphs
White Papers The characterization is carried out using several novel techniques to identify clients, local DNS servers, and authoritative DNS servers. The increasing deployment of overlay networks that rely on DNS tricks has led to added interest in examining...
[June 1, 2009, 0:04]
Al-Jazeera suffers DoS attack
News The Web sites of Al-Jazeera have been taken offline, in what has been confirmed by the Qatar-based media organisation as a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against the company's Domain Name Servers (DNS).
[March 27, 2003, 14:09]
BIND bug opens domain name servers to attack
News CERT, an Internet security advisory service, on Tuesday warned that the flaw affects Domain Name System (DNS) servers running version 9 of Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) prior to version 9.2.1. Because the normal operation of most services on...
[June 5, 2002, 15:11]
Inside Windows 2003 Infrastructure Networking Services
White Papers In this session, we will see how to migrate Windows NT 4.0 DHCP scopes into Windows Server 2003, examine new features of DHCP in Windows Server 2003, explore DHCP/DNS interaction and other features, and set up a multi-subnet DHCP solution across...
[September 2, 2008, 7:34]
High-risk internet server exploit goes wild
News The exploit targets a vulnerability in Bind 9, the most widely used DNS server standard, warned the Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) on Tuesday. The Berkeley Internet Name Domain (Bind) is the most widely used DNS server standard.
[July 29, 2009, 17:16]
Key Internet server moved amid security concerns
News Later, though, the company recanted its claims, explaining that its method of measuring server uptime used ICMP packets, the same sort of data the attackers had used to flood the DNS root servers. That's precisely what administrators did during the...
[November 11, 2002, 7:39]
Key Internet server moved for security
News That's precisely what administrators did during the recent attack to stop the flood of data from reaching the DNS root servers. But VeriSign, which runs two of the Net's 13 domain name service (DNS) root servers, said Thursday that the timing of...
[November 8, 2002, 7:42]
