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| Newer page: | version 2 | Last edited on Monday, March 8, 2004 1:08:55 am | by PerryLorier | Revert |
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The method with which a [DNS] server will share information about another for a zone that they are both authoratitive for.
-Only allow zone
transfers from trusted domains
, otherwise I could send a
zone transfer
to ns2.someoneIdon'tlike.com and redirect
all their traffic anywhere I wanted!
+Zone
transfers cannot inject bad data into your system
, however nasty people like to do
zone transfers
to find out
all the machines you have so they can attack the more efficiently, this is why Zone Transfers are typically only permitted to trusted hosts.
