[79814] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: New Outage Hits Comcast Subscribers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petri Helenius)
Fri Apr 15 12:07:31 2005
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 19:07:19 +0300
From: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
To: Daniel Golding <dgolding@burtongroup.com>
Cc: Jerry Pasker <info@n-connect.net>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <BE8532DB.AB1B%dgolding@burtongroup.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Daniel Golding wrote:
>If you take a look at the dslreports.com forums, there are numerous
>complains about DNS performance from various DSL and cable modem users. I'm
>not sure how reasonable these complains are. The usual solution from other
>users is to install a piece of Windows software called "Treewalk" which will
>magically cure their problems.
>
>
Consumer ISP's who don't proactively take care of security/abuse usually
end up with harvesting-bots which consume significant amount of DNS
resources, typically doing anything from a few dozen to a thousand
queries _a_second_. A few hundred of these will seriously hamper an
usually provisioned recursive server.
Pete
