[dns-operations] "EarthLink Criticized for DNS Redirects"

[David Ulevitch]

On Sep 15, 2006, at 7:22 AM, Barry Greene ((bgreene)) wrote:

>
> So is this a trend? There has been talk among SPs I've been working  
> with
> to have all broadband customers go through their "port 53"
> infrastructure - much like Canada who has all customers go through  
> their
> "port 25" infrastructure - for the same reasons - another tool to
> mitigate security nonsense and possible lead to cleaning up violated
> systems.

When you say SP are you talking about ISPs or enterprise networks,  
corporate networks, university networks, etc?

I think there is a serious difference in appropriate behavior on this  
matter between the former and the latter.

> Something like this would allow SPs to DNS poison phishing sites -
> redirecting the gullible victim to a page that would help (hopefully)
> get more clue.

They'd be far better off using a web proxy to do this.

-david


>
> Thoughts?
>
>
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