Re: DNS cache poisoning?

Joel Esler <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.incidents
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Why are you using NT4?

..back to lurking...

On 8/15/05, Willard Van Dyne <[email protected]> wrote:
> Good day!
> 
> Our DNS server has been crashing far too frequently as of late.
> The OS is WinNT4 SP6.
> 
> Many of the error messages in the system log goes like this:
> 
> "6/26/05,1:43:58 PM,Dns,Error,None,5108,N/A,DNS,DNS Server created CNAME
> loop loading CNAME at resalehost.networksolutions.com.. One link in CNAME
> loop:  DNS name resalehost.networksolutions.com. is alias for CNAME
> resalehost.networksolutions.com.. See adjoining messages for other links in
> CNAME loop."
> 
> A Google search about the problem gets us reports that this looks like a
> "cache corruption" vulnerability on Windows NT servers, and has to be patched.
> 
> Is this true in our case?
> If so, why is networksolutions.com doing this?
> If not, is our network under attack by some other means?
> 
> I hope someone can enlighten us. Thanks!
> 
> 
> 
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