found a possible error in the 34 question test (Which I like by the way!)
21. What is the term used to describe the type of attack where a DNS server accepts and uses incorrect information from a host that does not have authority to supply that information?
a. DNS cache corruption
b. DNS cache poisoning
c. DNS caching
d. DNS spoofing
e. Name server smurf
f. Name server teardrop
Now my thought was that is was DNS Poisoning, the answer for the test was DNS Spoofing.
Now, I think I understand that:
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]DNS Spoofing is the art of making a DNS entry to point to an another IP than it would
be supposed to point to.[/FONT]
whereas DNS poisoning is:
DNS cache poisoning is a maliciously created or unintended situation that provides data to a caching
name server that did not originate from authoritative
Domain Name System (DNS) sources.
Now it would appear that spoofing would be required to achieve a DNS poison, you would have to spoof as a DNS server with an updated CNS cache, however, isn't the act poisoning, rather than spoofing?
