From the course: Windows Server 2012 Active Directory: Network Services

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DNS socket pools

DNS socket pools

- If we just consider for a second the way a computer works and the way we communicate between one machine to another machine always using the same port. Or let's envision if we were driving home and we were in an area where we had to worry about terrorism or something like that, and we have to worry about driving back and forth to work every day. Right, one of the things I was taught in the military is when you live overseas, you never take the same route to work every day, you never take the same route home every day, you never go to the same coffee shop at the exact same time every day. Because it allows people that are observing you to be able to then hack your environment. The same thing happens with our infrastructure. If we're utilizing DNS and every single time we did a query on DNS, whether it be a recursive query or we did iterative query, if every single time we did that query, from the same port, as a source port, eventually a hacker could capture enough packets that they…

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