Recently we implemented DNS for data fetching. The objective is to implement more out-of-band techniques for data fetching: - HTTP requests (Oracle UTL_HTTP) - openrowset (to replicate dbms remotely on MSSQL) - db_link() (to replicate dbms remotely on PgSQL) Some relevant materials: - http://www.hideaway.net/2007/08/out-of-band-oracle-sql-injection-with.html - http://www.learnsecurityonline.com/offerings/videos/non-lso/165-defcon-15-t202-sql-injection-and-out-of-band-channeling