DNS poisoning is one of the way to attack the users present in same network. In this article I am going to share what is DNS poisoning, how we can do it and what are the details we can get using this attack.
What is DNS?
DNS stands for Domain Name Server. This is a server that stores IP addresses of all the domains like google.com, securitydiaries.com, djangodiaries.com and many more.
Usually we can’t remember IP addresses of all the websites, so we use names like we can’t remember phone numbers of the contacts, so we save them with a name. When we want to call just call to that contact similarly while we want to open any website or domain we open that domain which gets the IP address details from DNS server and connects to it.
What is DNS Spoofing or DNS Poisoning?
DNS poisoning is a technique in which the IP addresses of domains stored in DNS server are changed to redirect victim to malicious page to get credentials. Usually you have to hack into DNS server to change the details but there is a DNS cache in your router which stores recent addresses to save round trip to DNS sever and you can infect that cache with your deserved address to divert traffic.
This is how it works
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