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On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 04:07:44PM +0100, Penguin Lover laurent squawked: |
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> Is it a common thing, or really easy to do, to redirect the content from a |
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> server to another one? |
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> Like launching an lil app telling the port to listen and then get all data |
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> travelling there?? |
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You need to be a bit more precise about what you mean... |
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If you are talking about client A sitting behind router B which |
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interfaces with Big Scary Internet C, then it is trivial for the |
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router B to have a transparent proxy or some other form of package |
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re-write that redirects your traffic. |
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If you are talking about client A and server B and server C then it is |
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also trivial for server B to redirect all its traffic to server C. |
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If you are talking about client A and server B and Bad server C and |
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attacker D, I don't see how in general the attacker D can redirect |
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traffic from B to C, unless D somehow sits on the only node that |
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connects A to B (in which case you are essentially back to scenario |
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1). (Yes yes, there are DNS injections and what nots, but in essence |
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they are just variations of scenario 1.) |
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There are also other possible scenarios. So please describe in a bit |
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more detail what you are thinking of and why you care. |
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Cheers, |
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English lessons for programmers #28: |
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"Fewer" is of type int; whereas "less" is of type double. |
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