difference between Man-in-Middle and DNS poisoning attack?

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I read that there are two types of redirect attacks on DNS servers
1) Man-in-Middle
2) DNS poisoning

what is the difference between these two types ?

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Man in the middle is to get informations exchanged by two users.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man-in-the-middle_attack

[...] making them believe that they are talking directly to each other over a private connection, when in fact the entire conversation is controlled by the attacker [...]

DNS poisoning is done to alter the data.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS_spoofing

[...] it is considered poisoned, and it supplies the false data to clients [...]