[154614] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: DNS Changer items
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Merike Kaeo)
Fri Jul 6 14:06:59 2012
From: Merike Kaeo <kaeo@merike.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAD6AjGSGnfBfBGUY1F_=ZcTmYHu6gHL+X7hTTC2=zdixKc-cQA@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2012 11:06:14 -0700
To: Cameron Byrne <cb.list6@gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
The ISPs who have been proactive in mitigating and redirecting have =
been/are doing this. (global reach here)
The court ordered DNS servers have been up since Nov 9th and lots of =
outreach done....the intent was a
graceful ramp down. Sadly, the state of folks helping with overall =
malware cleanup is still lots of finger pointing.
FUD with press and over sensationalism not helping.
- merike
On Jul 6, 2012, at 10:52 AM, Cameron Byrne wrote:
> So insteading of turning the servers off, would it not have been =
helpful to
> have the servers return a "captive portal" type of reponse saying =
"hey,
> since you use this server, you are broken, go here to get fixed"
>=20
> Seems that would have been a more graceful ramp down.
>=20
> CB
