>I've never heard of DNS spoofing before, can you explain?

http://www.menandmice.com/infobase/mennmys/vefsidur.nsf/index/6.2

>If this is just eople replicating my DNS servers, why is that a bad thing?

Because DNS cache is poisoned with wrong data, not your good records.

>And why would anyone want to do that?

Steal mail by passing out bogus MX records?

Steal cc numbers on a fake e-commerce site?  How about poisoning the 
DNS cache for DigitalRiver.com ?  :)))

>I hate announcing things like this on the list...

???  Then stop doing it.   :)))

Len

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