Re: Dynamic DNS

[blk () SKYNET BE (Brad Knowles)]

At 8:08 PM -0700 1999/8/28, Jethro Tull wrote:

> All Dynamic DNS services that I know of are vulnerable .

        Known problem.  DynDNS (as it exists today) is inherently
insecure [0].  There are solutions to this problem underway, but
they're not here yet.

        So, this is news to anyone?

[0]  Which I guess explains why Microsoft has chosen to use it in
Windows 2000.  ;-)

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