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Chrome will limit access to private networks, citing security reasons (therecord.media)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

Being a network security specialist, I'll ask these basic questions:

what's the universal definition of a private network?
does this measure make sense in IPv6 within the global scope?
is it the responsibility of the browser to secure against DNS rebinding?

My answers to these questions are:

there is no universal definition, so this approach is doomed by design
no
heck, no; that's the job of the webserver, by avoiding the so-called default virtual host. The Host/:authority header should always be verified, and this is sufficient to counter all forms of DNS rebinding.