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0 pointswarp5y ago0 comments

But then a lying DNS server could easily identify those, and NOT lie about http://*.google -- the reason these requests are entirely random domain names is so they're not easily recognized as probes.

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xnyanta5y ago

Except that the queries are already totally identifiable as probes in their current form, which is demonstrated in the article.

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0 pointswarp5y ago0 comments

But then a lying DNS server could easily identify those, and NOT lie about http://*.google -- the reason these requests are entirely random domain names is so they're not easily recognized as probes.

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xnyanta5y ago

Except that the queries are already totally identifiable as probes in their current form, which is demonstrated in the article.

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