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Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2008 09:05:35 +1000
From: Paul Szabo <psz@...hs.usyd.edu.au>
To: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: DNS spoofing issue. Thoughts on

>> But realizing that going from 11 seconds to (11 * 64512 =3D) 8.21 days
>> is not a significant jump ...

We had a browser pointed to an "evil page" making image requests for
aaa.victim.com, aab.victim.com etc, for a few seconds. You cannot expect
the browser to stay alive for days.

Cheers,

Paul Szabo   psz@...hs.usyd.edu.au   http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/psz/
School of Mathematics and Statistics   University of Sydney    Australia

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