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[Discuss] DNS question about DNSENUM.PL



--On Monday, March 25, 2013 11:16 AM -0400 Chris O'Connell 
<omegahalo at gmail.com> wrote:

> I don't understand the mechanics of how this is happening.  What's
> allowing me to ping VPN.blah.org, but doesn't allows DNSENUM to find it?
> What exactly is brute forcing DNS doing?  Why do some subdomains show up
> without the use of brute force and others don't?

You appear to be using the word "subdomain" when you mean "host name". If 
you've delegated the vpn.blah.org subdomain from the blah.org domain then 
of course you cannot ping it. Subdomains do not have IP addresses.

-- 
Rich P.



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