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Re: [cobalt-security] DANGER WILL ROBINSON!!! A tool for MIM/c*apfilt and poisoning listed on /.
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-security] DANGER WILL ROBINSON!!! A tool for MIM/c*apfilt and poisoning listed on /.
- From: "Mark Anderson" <cronus@xxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 09:53:31 +0100
- List-id: Mailing list for users to address network security on Cobalt products. <cobalt-security.list.cobalt.com>
> Sorry, but ARP poisoning is independent of whether you use the
> host name or not. It happens at a lower layer, i.e., L2 of
> the ISO 7-layer model. When you resolve a name, you end up
> with one or more IP addresses anyway -- and if the ARP cache
> is poisoned, there's not much you can do about it.
Thanks for that. I am grateful for the correction and worried about
how blasse I was when I was wrong... ;]