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Authored by: samkass on May 07, '05 08:43:24PM

This hint appears to open you up to some pretty serious security problems. I did this hint when it was posted. Today I realized that "www.google.com" was being hijacked and sent to an alternate site via my local BIND DNS lookup (every lookup for "www.google.com" was being sent to "www.google.com.net", but since it's at the DNS level, Safari still showed www.google.com in the address bar.) Resetting it to use my cable modem company's ISP reset it to the correct google site. I've since undone the hack and all is well again.

I'm not enough of an expert on DNS to know what the vulnerability's specific issues are, but based on my experience this hint is a VERY BAD idea.



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