[63159] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Annoying dynamic DNS updates
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joel Jaeggli)
Mon Sep 29 08:02:19 2003
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 04:55:49 -0700 (PDT)
From: Joel Jaeggli <joelja@darkwing.uoregon.edu>
To: "Stewart, William C (Bill), RTSLS" <billstewart@att.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <5AFA5A2C102DAB4692ABC1E87E0780CA053159DD@OCCLUST02EVS1.ugd.att.com>
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anyone who doesn't have the windows messanger service disabled or
fire-walled. gets huge piles of messenger spam so it will look just like
more messanger spam to those people.
joelja
On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, Stewart, William C (Bill), RTSLS wrote:
>
> 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
> might not be blocked by Comcast.net. So the obvious thing
> to do is find whichever program it is you use to send those
> 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,
> but if you include a URL, you may get their attention.
>
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