Fishing the AWS IP Pool for Dangling Domains

Published

2015-10-07 00:00

Collected

2026-07-08 08:45

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id: 4266
title: "Fishing the AWS IP Pool for Dangling Domains"
source_domain: bishopfox.com
source_url: "https://bishopfox.com/blog/fishing-the-aws-ip-pool-for-dangling-domains"
published_at: "2015-10-07T00:00:00Z"
tags: ["cloud", "cloud-security", "aws", "reconnaissance", "dns", "dangling-domains"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/4266"
lang: en
---

# Fishing the AWS IP Pool for Dangling Domains

## Summary

How recycled AWS IPs create dangling-domain risks: after allocating an Elastic IP and searching Bing's ip: operator, Matt Bryant found forgotten DNS records still pointing at it.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** bishopfox.com
- **Published:** 2015-10-07T00:00:00Z
- **Original:** https://bishopfox.com/blog/fishing-the-aws-ip-pool-for-dangling-domains
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/4266