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Re: DNS Hijacking by Cox

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Greco)
Mon Jul 23 16:40:00 2007

From: Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net>
To: sean@donelan.com (Sean Donelan)
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 15:01:41 -0500 (CDT)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.64.0707231243210.21903@clifden.donelan.com> from "Sean Donelan" at Jul 23, 2007 12:44:07 PM
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


> On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, Joe Greco wrote:
> > I can't help but notice you totally avoided responding to what I wrote;
> > I would have to take this to mean that you know that it is fundamentally
> > unreasonable to expect users to set up their own recursers to work around
> > ISP recurser brokenness (which is essentially what this is).
> 
> Its more resonable to expect users to know how to remove bots and fix 
> their compromised computers?

No amount of IRC redirection is going to remove bots and fix their
compromised computers.

... JG
-- 
Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net
"We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I
won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-mail spam(CNN)
With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many apples.

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