Fyi, Any NT app can bypass the local hosts file using DnsQuery(...,..., DNS_QUERY_NO_HOSTS_FILE, ...); marioc@xxxxxxxxxxxx http://bubbler.net/outlaw/blog -----Original Message----- From: Joachim Schipper [mailto:j.schipper@xxxxxxxxxx] Sent: April 13, 2006 8:13 PM To: full-disclosure@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; bugtraq@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] Microsoft DNS resolver: deliberately sabotaged hosts-file lookup On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 06:29:15PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: > > Hey, guess what I just found out: Microsoft have deliberately > sabotaged their DNS client's hosts table lookup functionality. > (...) I'd try to block (Windows Media Player) it in my hosts file. > Microsoft DNS client special-cases 'go.microsoft.com' and refuses to > look it up in the hosts file. > I'm running fully up-to-date Windows XP SP2. I don't have any pfw > software that could conceivably be interfering, and the windows > firewall is running with more-or-less the default settings (I've only > added a couple of exceptions, no other changes). I don't think this is a false positive.
