[Full-disclosure] DNS mining ?

[Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu]

On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 22:37:12 +0200, Maxim Veksler said:
> On 4/9/07, Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu <Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu> wrote:
> > and other ways to get lists of things like "everything
> > in *.com".  So "never published" does *not* equate directly to "not findable".
> >
> 
> OK, that is not practical. Scanning the whole DNS range for *.com of
> what ever will taken a considerably long time.

Who said you *scan* the whole DNS range?  It's at least theoretically
possible to just FTP the whole DNS Zone file for .com, after jumping
through a few paperwork hoops.  Of course, it's up there in the gigabyte
range - 120M SOA and NS records take some space. :)
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