Re: Is There a Virus that Breaks DNS?

"Moe Trin" <ibuprofin@painkiller.example.tld> wrote in message
news:slrndgs8pk.8al.ibuprofin@compton.phx.az.us...
> In the Usenet newsgroup comp.security.firewalls, in article
> <FvadnZ2dnZ0qwiabnZ2dnT3JkN6dnZ2dRVn-y52dnZ0@comcast.com>, Charles Newman
wrote:
>
> >"Moe Trin" <ibuprofin@painkiller.example.tld> wrote
>
> >> 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?
>
> One assumes you can read through typos - if you can't, I can translate
that
> for you. The last sentence should read
>
> "A linux box on the same router has no problem whatsoever."
>
> So, while the windoze box can't resolve names, another system running on
> the same connection has no problem.
>
> >>>> Could be your ISP's DNS server as well.
> >>
> >> Much more likely to be a windoze or DHCP problem.
>
> Charles, it really helps if you read the posts.
>
> > Sometimes Comcast's DNS server breaks, and
> >when that happens, I get the same kinds of problems
> >as the OP.
>
> So, you believe the Comcast - a rather large cable provider with about
> TWENTY FOUR MILLION IP ADDRESSES has "one" DNS server? That's a pretty

   The have three of them, according to information
from Sam Spade, which checks various registation
databases. On rare occasion, all three DNS servers
will go down, though that has not happened in several
months.
Received on Thu Sep 29 20:04:47 2005