Re: Opinions on the following articles?

From: Barry Margolin (barry.margolin_at_level3.com)
Date: 06/27/03 

Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 16:29:41 GMT

In article <8d76ec03.0306250250.5c9e6649@posting.google.com>,
sponge <yosponge@yahoo.com> wrote:
>Sure, if you disable unnecessary services, they can't be hijacked. So,
>the advice is sound to some extent. But there are problems. You can't
>disable all vulnerable services. For one, do you use DNS? Of course
>you do (even if you don't know it.)

What are you talking about? You don't have to run a DNS server to "use"
DNS. Normally you use your ISP's nameservers, and you're just a client. 

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