Re: DNS cache poisoning?
Joel Esler <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.security.incidents |
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| 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! > > > >