Everything is a Freaking DNS problem

Everything is a freaking DNS problem , and when you warn people about it , you get a piece of your own cake ;(

So it seems that HD Moore was Misquoted in the press.

So there's victims and victims. Surely Metasploit's credibility will go down as lots of people will only read the first article .. let alone the Metasploit blog that has more details.

As different people last weekend asked me and Serge ran into one again .

Here's where to get the T-Shirt : dnsproblem.spreadshirt.net

Yes Bart your SO also asked me !

So I was trying to install this piece of software that I wanted to test ..
It came with a weird installscript that kept telling me it couldn't ping tom my nameserver

.. checking network access via ping to DNS/IP: IN
...... unable to ping: IN : ping returned: 2
unable to ping DNS name server: IN
192.168.1.209 : ping returned code: 2

Now why would it tro to ping IN ?

This is why .. the scripts tries to find out my nameserver using dig

root@C51 ~]# dig localhost | grep SERVER  | cut -d# -f 1| awk '{print
$3}'
IN
192.168.1.209

It didn't expect to get this feedback from dig

[root@C51 ~]# dig localhost
 
; <<>> DiG 9.3.3rc2 <<>> localhost
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 32043
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0
 
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;localhost.                     IN      A
 
;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
.                       10215   IN      SOA     A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
NSTLD.VERISIGN-GRS.COM. 2008031700 1800 900 604800 86400
 
;; Query time: 7 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.1.209#53(192.168.1.209)
;; WHEN: Mon Mar 17 21:02:50 2008
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 102

Couple of people again have asked me where I got the t-shirt

I actually made it myselve and you can buy it from Spreadshirt