Internet giants have united to fix a serious problem in the internet DNS addressing system that might have let hackers hijack web traffic
And the interesting thing is that it happened also to me some while ago with a site that I had in administration .
A few months ago I observed a strange behavior by accessing this website. I wanted to access this site and I observed that even if the DNS records are properly set on my name server, I was redirected somewhere else when I was accessing the name address from the browser, to another internet site. At that time I hadn’t known that the entire DNS system has a problem. I observed that the DNS system was corrupted somewhere but I couldn’t specify why and find the reasons. Although, it was obviously to me that something is not alright with the domain addressing space. I checked and rechecked the name server and the records. Still nothing.
Basically the ip to address name mapping had a flow. Some malicious guy was able to redirect by corrupting some name server with another A record which would redirect to somewhere else. And, the strange thing is that I couldn’t find the solution and fix the problem at that time.
I have begun to query all the name servers recursively with the tools that I had, with “dig” and with “nslookup”. I have founded the name server with the problem, but I wasn’t been able to fix the problem because it wasn’t a problem that I could fix. My name server was working fine. All the settings were good.
After a few days I observed that the problem fixed somehow and I was intrigued about all this story.
Now I read about the DNS security hole discovered also by accident by Dan Kaminsky.
The big software and hardware companies worked in secret for months to create a software patch which has now been released to repair the glitch.
But read the entire article here .
I’m glad that the problem was fixed and we can surf now safely the internet. And I want to thanks to the collective effort to fix the problem.
GOOD WORK !
