Re: DNS and SMTP

From: Byron Copeland (nodialtone_at_comcast.net)
Date: 05/29/04

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    To: security-basics@lists.securityfocus.com
    Date: 28 May 2004 22:03:47 -0400
    
    
    

    Well kaps,

    There are numerous resources at your finger tips concerning the topics
    your interested in:

    1) google.com
    2) Various O'REILLY books concerning dns bind
    3) man pages
    4) help nslookup
    5) http://www.rfc-editor.org/
    6) the list is endless...

    On Fri, 2004-05-28 at 09:16, kaps lock wrote:
    > Hi All,
    > I am a security new bie.I would like to know or
    > atleast if somebody can have me some pointers to good
    > turtorials on
    >
    > 1)DNS
    > basically i want to be able to understand everything
    > about DNS ,using nslookup,dig inorder to be a good
    > security analyst.like how i could determine OS of a
    > dns server ,or say how i could determine what evrsion
    > of BIND it is using etc.
    > 2)SMTP
    > If somebody could tell me what is an Object ID and how
    > does it function and how it is decided upon!!Like the
    > tree that is followed.Also could a system be
    > compromised if a attacker nows the communitry string?
    >
    > thanks a bunch in advance
    >
    > B
    >
    >
    >
    >
    >
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