Re: [dns-privacy] Google Public DNS redirected through BGP

Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr> Sat, 29 March 2014 21:23 UTC

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Subject: Re: [dns-privacy] Google Public DNS redirected through BGP
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On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 12:54:53PM +0100,
 Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr> wrote 
 a message of 11 lines which said:

> https://twitter.com/bgpmon/status/445266642616868864
> 
> What's the link with DNS privacy? It's an example on a possible
> threat when you use a public DNS resolver without authentication. I do
> not know the motivactions of the attacker (it may have been a simple
> fat-fingering) but such a BGP hijacking could be used to spy on Google
> Public DNS traffic.

And here, public resolvers Google Public DNS and OpenDNS redirected in
Turkey, apparently through the IGP. Privacy implications are obvious:

http://www.bortzmeyer.org/dns-routing-hijack-turkey.html