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Comment by webstrand

6 hours ago

MitM isn't even necessary, a rogue DHCP server configuring a malicious DNS could attack this.

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burnt-resistor  4 hours ago

That's still a MITM, albeit a LAN-local one. Non-LAN WAN isn't the total scope of MITMs.

kortilla  4 hours ago

That is a form of MiTM. It’s just changing DNS to IP bindings rather than IP to MAC or prefix to ISP.

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