[63150] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Annoying dynamic DNS updates
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stewart, William C (Bill), RTSLS)
Mon Sep 29 01:06:18 2003
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 00:05:36 -0500
From: "Stewart, William C (Bill), RTSLS" <billstewart@att.com>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Some cable user's machine running default-configured MS apps
is sending Paul dynamic DNS queries that it shouldn't,
because somehow it's decided he's got an interesting destination
(I'm guessing f.root-servers.net ?)
Paul wants the user to get an error popup about it.
Well, default-configured Microsoft applications have an
application that lets you send a machine popup dialog boxes;
it's been discussed here recently because spammers abuse it
and (related discussion) it uses Port 135, so it might or=20
might not be blocked by Comcast.net. So the obvious thing
to do is find whichever program it is you use to send those=20
messages, and start sending popups, guessing that it might not be =
blocked.
The user's unlikely to have a clue what to do about them,=20
but if you include a URL, you may get their attention.
