DNS spoofing with zone transfer

Kevin Darcy kcd at daimlerchrysler.com
Tue Jul 29 21:28:09 UTC 2003


Jeff Stevens wrote:

> I was reading how this is done but I am confused as to how a remote DNS
> gets a master zone to initiate a zone transfer to the master...I thought
> such transfers only went to slaves?

I don't really understand your question. Are you quoting something from
whatever you're reading?

In any case, the zone transfer operation is a "pull" rather than a "push".
The slave sends an AXFR or IXFR query *to* the master, which then sends
the contents of the zone as the reply to the query. Does that clear
anything up?


- Kevin




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