10-12-2006, 09:15 AM
Quote:Half of the web's domain name servers are wrongly configured, leaving companies and large sections of the internet infrastructure open to attack...
t 50% of DNS servers allow recursive name services – a form of name resolution that often requires a name server to relay requests to other name servers.
This leaves many networks vulnerable to pharming attacks and enables their servers to be used in DNS amplification attacks that can take down important DNS infrastructure..
In addition, more than 29% of DNS servers surveyed allow zone transfers to arbitrary queries, enabling duplication of an entire segment of an organisationÂ’s DNS data from one DNS server to another, and leaving them easy targets for denial of service attacks...
full article: http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2...attack.htm