[154629] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: DNS Changer items
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tomas L. Byrnes)
Fri Jul 6 16:00:45 2012
Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2012 12:59:54 -0700
In-Reply-To: <9602.1341597996@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
From: "Tomas L. Byrnes" <tomb@byrneit.net>
To: <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu>,
"Cameron Byrne" <cb.list6@gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> -----Original Message-----
> From: valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu [mailto:valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu]
> Sent: Friday, July 06, 2012 11:07 AM
> To: Cameron Byrne
> Cc: nanog@nanog.org
> Subject: Re: DNS Changer items
>=20
> 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
>=20
> Not all DNS lookups are for HTTP.
[Tomas L. Byrnes]=20
It's still better to do this than simply turn off all resolution.
