On Tue, 27 May 2003, Shane Adams wrote: > Kinda reminds of this time I walked out of a store to find some jack#$% > sitting on the hood of MY new car while talking to some of his friends. > Guess he should've been free to do it. I'm the idiot that left it
These somewhat poor 'physical-world' analogies are getting a bit out of hand. How about this network resource analogy: You run a network connected to the Internet, either for personal use, or for the company you work for. You host Internet domain names and therefore you have some DNS servers that provide the rest of the world with information about the domains you are responsible for. These DNS severs also have a second function. They allow local users to perform DNS lookups so that they can more easily navigate the Internet. The thing is you never configured your name servers to allow recursive queries from only hosts on your local network, from trusted hosts. So anyone on the Internet can point their computer at your DNS severs and use them to resolve the names of other hosts on the Internet. In fact, maybe some of these people didn't even start using your DNS servers intentionally. Maybe someone who works for you configured their computer to point to them. Maybe you published their IP addresses some place, like on your web site or on a mailing list and didn't say "HEY! THESE ARE PRIVATE d00d!". Now put a Usenet news server sans authentication or an open relay SMTP server into that same equation. -- Derek Vadala, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.cynicism.com/~derek -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
