Reply to post: Trust a hackers data?

Don't panic, but Linux's Systemd can be pwned via an evil DNS query

-tim
FAIL

Trust a hackers data?

I've always found it odd that systems would enable dns reverse lookups for all sorts of things where it provides no value. I don't trust DNS to give me a valid name if all I have is an IP address.

The whole thing of probing someone's network and have them look up your IP address where you then send TCP packets back to crash their name server or other application has been around since the early 1990s.

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