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[James Love]

/. on IP Tunneling through namesevers

http://slashdot.org/articles/00/09/10/2230242.shtml

IP Tunneling Through Nameservers

         Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday September 10, @10:28PM
         from the surfing-for-free dept.
         I'm always interested in seeing protocols extended to do silly
(and in many cases, not so silly) things that they were never intended
to do. I've seen DNS extended to do a lot of crazy stuff, but until
today, the coolest was
         DNS server based MUDs. Read on to read about an IP tunnel
implemented through DNS. Its crazy.  FrodoID (for Skyp and FrodoID)
writes "In many countries, it is possible to use the Internet completely
free of charge using Microsft PPP dialin numbers. These numbers, of
course, normally won't allow you to do this. 

         But did you know that you can build up a fullfeatured and even
bidirectional IP tunnel through Nameservers? Yes, that's right:
"IP-over-DNS". 

         Using some toll free numbers which normally only allow outgoing
packets to some few chosen servers, you can now surf the internet -
completely and doing everything you could do with your normal,
fullfeatured internet account. Microsoft has some of those restricted,
toll free numbers. 

   [snip]

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