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What is dns spoofing?

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What is dns spoofing?

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The most common form of spoofing is to pass a request for data from one computer through another computer so that the site from which info or services is being requested can’t accurately identify the source of the request. It’s like being able to dial your cell phone from my cell phone so that I can call someone and have your caller id appear on their phone instead of mine. The way it is done is by setting your IP address as a proxy address in my web browser. You can block your IP address from being used as a proxy address (or your IP provider can). Proxy spoofing is often used by people who don’t want where they are surfing to be connected back to their own IP address. It can also be used to get into a site which has blocked a person’s IP address, because they have abused the site before. Another kind of spoofing (the one you are experiencing) uses a redirect command to route traffic from one address to another. In this kind of spoof the point is to get someone (who thinks they are at

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