[101849] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Level3/GTEI well-known DNS down?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Hennigan)
Sat Jan 19 13:14:46 2008
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2008 10:14:09 -0800
From: Jay Hennigan <jay@west.net>
CC: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20080119153314.GA32833@gweep.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Joe Provo wrote:
> Open resolvers are seriously abused by botnets and related baddies.
> Perhaps you might need to run a set of resolvers, or get your service
> provider[s] to give you something similar to well-tuned anycasted
> resolvers.
Rumor from a previous discussion of these "well known" resolvers was
that they were deliberately encouraging their use by non-customers,
data-mining the lookups for marketing purposes, and selling the
statistical results.
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