From: nobody@REPLAY.COM (Anonymous)
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 1997 13:02:43 +0800
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Subject: Re: Kashpureff stuff online
Message-ID: <199712020446.FAA11464@basement.replay.com>
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Anyone know of any low S/N lists out there for "Crackerpunks"??



> 
> > So what did Kashpureff do?  Who is Kashpureff?  Is he the guy at
> > Alternic who did some advanced DNS hacking to get Internic DNS root to
> > point to him?  Or something else?
> 
> Yup, that's him. 
> 
> IIRC, he exploited Bind's failure to check input in certain cases: 
> He set his DNS server to be the delegating authority for .com, 
> say; then sent a recursive query to his victim's DNS server to get 
> the victim to query _his_ server; his server mixed the bogus info 
> into its response to the query, thus poisoning the victim's DNS.
> 
> Cypherpunks write code.
> Crackerpunks read code.
> 
> 
> 
>  
> Ng Pheng Siong 
> <ngpsstoi@pacific.net.sg>
>