Dynamic DNS

Danny Mayer mayer at gis.net
Mon Feb 5 04:32:43 UTC 2001


         No, the issue is that noone could ever find your nameserver to do a
lookup since nameservers are listed by IP address and not by name. How
would any client know what the IP address of the server was?

         Danny

At 10:18 PM 2/4/01, Adam Lang wrote:

>I think the issue is that someone can setup DNS services on your OLD address
>and hijack queries.
>
>Example:
>
>You have a nameserver at aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd .  10 sites remember that your name
>server is at that address.  10 minutes later your nameserver moves to
>address aaa.bbb.ccc.yyy .  Someone else puts up a nameserver at
>aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd and makes it look like it is answering for your domain.
>Those previous 10 sites, if their cache hasn't timed out, will go to the
>.ddd site as opposed to checking for the new address, hence they can/will
>get wrong information.



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