Date: Thu, 9 Feb 1995 20:04:28 -0700 From: Nate Williams <nate@trout.sri.MT.net> To: "M.C Wong" <mcw@hpato.aus.hp.com>, freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com (freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com) Subject: Re: DNS selection at user level Message-ID: <199502100304.UAA14305@trout.sri.MT.net> In-Reply-To: "M.C Wong" <mcw@hpato.aus.hp.com> "DNS selection at user level" (Feb 10, 12:06pm)
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> Just wonder if there is an environment variable/way for selecting > default DNS server at user level without having to update /etc/resolv.conf ? > Preferably something that can manipulate a local workstation to > resolve host and domain names at run-time control, including order of > the DNS servers to be queried etc. There would be too many ways to completely break security this way. Say you have a machine that exports it's file-systems with root access to a specific machine. All you need to do is provide a DNS server that you setup which responds that your machine is the trusted machine. There are many other ways which could cause these sorts of problems. Nate
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