The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser cover image

Your DNS queries will eventually look like this (0x20 DNS encoding)

The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser

00:00

The Problem With Recursive DNS

In the past, DNS servers could be poisoned with a wrong answer if they responded to an attacker before their authoritative server did. The problem now is that we have other parameters to protect us from this kind of attack. But it doesn't really take much to solve this: randomize the port or something like that and you can still poison specific domains.

Transcript
Play full episode

The AI-powered Podcast Player

Save insights by tapping your headphones, chat with episodes, discover the best highlights - and more!
App store bannerPlay store banner
Get the app