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Article #714Re: Resolving IP numbers?
From: Andrew Ryan Chang
Date: Wed, 03 Jul 1996 00:00
Date: Wed, 03 Jul 1996 00:00
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Brian Hampson <brian@asl-labs.bc.ca> wrote: >: To get a list, you have to use the correct server. >: ie: "ls -d infomatch.com" won't show anything if I'm using cafe.net's dns. >: Anyway, to get a listing of .ca, you would have to use the ".ca" >: server or "internic.org". I've tried both--none of them work. It says >: "Query Refused." > >Most people won't let you do this, since this is a great starting point >for an attacker. They now have the list of ALL the hosts in your domain. :( I don't understand why knowing the names of a lot of machines makes for any more usefulness than knowing just one or two. -- : That's because you've never used Pico, the editor that lets you think of : something else. Yes, such as: ``Soon as I get out of this thing, I'm going back to cat''
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 114424,a70275e8decfce52 X-Google-Attributes: gid114424,public From: archang@sfu.ca (Andrew Ryan Chang) Subject: Re: Resolving IP numbers? Date: 1996/07/03 Message-ID: <4res3h$8iu@morgoth.sfu.ca> X-Deja-AN: 163550729 x-pgp-fingerprint: DB 5E D1 86 62 B8 58 88 54 54 49 9F 8A BD 29 91 x-pgp-key: Key on request. references: <4r48lp$dvt@berlin.infomatch.com> <4r5doj$esb@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> <D19960703T36829X4433@grizzly.asl-labs.bc.ca> organization: Simon Fraser University newsgroups: bc.unix