Re: [Sheflug] Any DNS Experts around........

[Richard Stevenson <richard [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 11 Mar 2003, Alex Hudson wrote:

> On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 18:48, Rob Keeling wrote:
> > What I now want to do is "poison" the DNS cache with various entries for
> > other (random) domain names.
>
> When you think this is the solution, you know you are wrong. Repeat
> after me - "Yuck!"

I agree there... what's up?  We might be able to come up with a better
solution.

> > eg My laptop wants to send email to smtp.freeserve.net, which is right for
> > home at school I need it to connect via our
> > school email server. If DNS returned our internal IP for smtp.freeserve.net
> > ..... problem solved!
>
> No, problem not solved. For you to 'poison' smtp.freeserve.net means you
> would have to be authoritative for freeserve.net, so you would either
> have to a) live with sites in that domain not working, b) replicate
> their entire zone, c) try to forward the 'correct' requests.

Or just be authoritative for smtp.freeserve.net.  Richard's authoritative
for sheflug.co.uk, but he doesn't have to be authoritative for co.uk to do
it...

Cheers

Richard

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