Re: Dynamic DNS

From: Brad Knowles (blkat_private)
Date: Mon Aug 30 1999 - 15:59:07 PDT

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    At 8:08 PM -0700 1999/8/28, Jethro Tull wrote:
    
    > All Dynamic DNS services that I know of are vulnerable .
    
    	Known problem.  DynDNS (as it exists today) is inherently
    insecure [0].  There are solutions to this problem underway, but
    they're not here yet.
    
    
    	So, this is news to anyone?
    
    
    
    
    
    [0]  Which I guess explains why Microsoft has chosen to use it in
    Windows 2000.  ;-)
    
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