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Through a series of connections I know a guy that knows a guy that works at Microsoft that was made aware and the changes have been reverted. Give 'er 30 minutes TTL ;)
for uninitiated (me), why is it bad?
In theory this could be leveraged for hacking, but I think that would require setup in advance.
Now Microsoft owns all your home networks, only like the default address on every home router out there...
An entry-level admin is now unemployed, just before the holidays.
So let me see if I understand. With this DNS record, if me or Windows tries to hit “microsoft.com” there’s a 1/7 chance it hit my router instead?
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Serve malicious updates from a locally controlled machine, for one. Lord knows about auth.
Do most DNS forwarders not block addresses that resolve to a local IP these days? I know dnsmasq does, and NextDNS too I think.
An entry-level admin is now unemployed, just before the holidays.
Through a series of connections I know a guy that knows a guy that works at Microsoft that was made aware and the changes have been reverted. Give 'er 30 minutes TTL ;)