Brookings: CyberSecurity In the Balance - 2 New Bills

[Alex Dean]

Adding to /etc/hosts would probably work, though, since then your browser will be sending the Host: header needed by the server.  Just browsing directly to the IP address won't do that.

alex

On Nov 17, 2011, at 12:46 PM, Derek Trotter wrote:

> That doesn't always work.  Take cases where multiple sites live on a server with one IP address.
> 
> I pinged www.gc.maricopa.edu to get their IP address 140.198.200.163.  I put in firefox and got their site.
> 
> I tried the same for www.foxnews.com 24.143.206.89 but got the following instead.
> 
> Invalid URL
> 
> The requested URL "/", is invalid.
> Reference #9.55ce8f18.1321555305.131e3b52
> 
> 
> 
> On 11/17/2011 10:56 AM, Eric Shubert wrote:
>> On 11/15/2011 04:37 PM, Lisa Kachold wrote: 
>>> http://www.brookings.edu/papers/2011/1115_cybersecurity_friedman.aspx 
>>> 
>>> -- 
>> 
>> I haven't read the proposals (did read the article), but if all they're doing is changing DNS services, wouldn't (simply) adding entries to the hosts file of any client circumvent the controls? Am I missing something? 
>> 
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