ARP Spoofing/DNS Spoofing - difference

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Lyubomir Velchev picture Lyubomir Velchev · Nov 12, 2011 · Viewed 12.4k times · Source

Is there a difference between ARP Spoofing and DNS Spoofing, or they are one and the same thing?

Answer

Andrew Paglusch picture Andrew Paglusch · Nov 13, 2011

ARP (Address Resolution Protocol) Spoofing is when an attacker sends out fake replies to an ARP Request. This is done usually to impersonate a router so that an attacker can intercept traffic.

DNS (Domain Name Service) Spoofing is when an attacker replies to DNS Requests (sent to resolve the IP address of a hostname) with false IP information. This is typically used to redirect users to false websites.

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