[154618] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: DNS Changer items
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roy)
Fri Jul 6 14:37:08 2012
Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2012 11:35:45 -0700
From: Roy <r.engehausen@gmail.com>
To: nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <9602.1341597996@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 7/6/2012 11:06 AM, valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> On Fri, 06 Jul 2012 10:52:56 -0700, Cameron Byrne said:
>> So insteading of turning the servers off, would it not have been helpful to
>> have the servers return a "captive portal" type of reponse
> Not all DNS lookups are for HTTP.
If you turn the servers off, then everything fails. The user sits there
bewildered and calls his/her ISP to report the Internet is down.
If HTTP was pointed to a server that had a page that said what the
problem is and what to do, it would be a lot better. Any tech support
these users call can diagnose the problem in a few seconds.
