Alternate and/or hidden infrastructure addresses (BGP/TCP RST/SYN vulnerability)

Fri Apr 23 00:54:47 UTC 2004

> 
> no! these are so easy to find!!!!
>
> $ host 65.116.132.145
> 145.132.116.65.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer lo0.b1.box2.twdx.net.

of course..  i wasn't saying i am one of those who are employing 'hide the
loopbacks from public' practice :) heh

but yea good point though, if you were to 'hide' them, reverse dns hostnames
should be taken into consideration as well.. 

-J

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