[rbldnsd] Feature request: DNSSEC

Steven Champeon schampeo at hesketh.com
Thu Jul 10 22:51:45 MSD 2008


on Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 01:29:58PM -0500, Lyle Giese wrote:
> I think Michael is right. What is the gain from attacking DNSBL data?
> 
> How does the attacker make money? He makes money by steering web traffic
> to compromised servers to push bot software to your desktop or to push
> popups or ads to your desktop.
> 
> He does not make money attacking DNSBL data.

If he's losing money by having his domains listed in a DNSBL, and now
has the ability to poison cached records pertaining to those domain(s),
I should think there's a rationale for attacking a DNSBL.

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