Re: BIND Nuking

alanMANAWATU.GEN.NZ

• Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ]
• Next message: Matt Conover: "Multiply bugs in MH-6.8.3 (Mail Handler program)"
• Previous message: Mihai SANDU: "Re: request-route"
• Maybe in reply to: Nicolas Dubee: "BIND Nuking"
• Next in thread: Daniele Orlandi: "Re: BIND Nuking"

At 00:49 25/07/97 -0400, you wrote:
>This was sent to me by my nameserver administrator. Credit goes
>to him, listed below.

(This workaround won't work for the attack listed, but it's still useful to
know..)

If you're using named 8.*, it can be run out of inittab with the
non-daemonising switch.

On linuxen:

/etc/inittab

bi:2345:respawn:/usr/sbin/named -f

At least this way, should it die, it'll come back within seconds.

AB

• Next message: Matt Conover: "Multiply bugs in MH-6.8.3 (Mail Handler program)"
• Previous message: Mihai SANDU: "Re: request-route"
• Maybe in reply to: Nicolas Dubee: "BIND Nuking"
• Next in thread: Daniele Orlandi: "Re: BIND Nuking"