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From: Jim Rees <rees@umich.edu>
To: Simo Sorce <simo@redhat.com>
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Simo Sorce wrote:

  >  And stop using the term "mitm". A mitm attack is used to
  > convince both ends of a connection that they are talking to each other. DNS
  > is not a mutually authenticated exchange.
  
  Well it is still a sort of Man in the Middle, as you also have to
  redirect communications (nfsv4 uses TCP) for it to be effective, it is
  just not exploiting a crypto issue.

Now you've lost me again. I thought we were discussing dns. What does nfs
have to do with it?