Re: Is There a Virus that Breaks DNS?

"Moe Trin" <ibuprofin@painkiller.example.tld> wrote in message
news:slrndgpkhv.3hm.ibuprofin@compton.phx.az.us...
> In the Usenet newsgroup comp.security.firewalls, in article
> <NpCdnZCgE_5vJ5HeRVn-tQ@comcast.com>, Charles Newman wrote:
>
> >"Shneor" <shneor@my-deja.com> wrote
>
> >> I appear to have lost DNS functionality on my W2K box. No problem to
> >> get to a URL (e.g., 121.230.140.99), but dns does not work. A linux box
> >> on the same oruter has no problem whatsoever.
>
> Did you miss this?
>
> > Could be your ISP's DNS server as well.
>
> Much more likely to be a windoze or DHCP problem.

   Sometimes Comcast's DNS server breaks, and
when that happens, I get the same kinds of problems
as the OP. I can specify a web site by the IP number,
but not by the Web address
Received on Thu Sep 29 20:04:02 2005