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Re: What DNS Is Not
From: Andrew Cox <andrew () accessplus com au>
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:23:52 +1030
David Ulevitch wrote:
Dealing with 10k~ uni students who like to spread new viruses faster than STD's I often make light of the fact that we can use OpenDNS to a) keep tabs on who's infected at what sites and b) prevent them from possibly doing more damage by phoning home with info or to collect instructions.On 11/9/09 6:06 PM, Alex Balashov wrote:Anything else is COMPLETELY UNACCEPTABLE. I don't understand how or why this could possibly be controversial.Because some people want the ability and choice to block DNS responses they don't like; just as they have the ability and choice to reject email they don't want to accept.When the conficker worms phones home to one of the 50,000 potential domains names it computes each day, there are a lot of IT folks out there that wish their local resolver would simply reject those DNS requests so that infected machines in their network fail to phone home.
It's as David says, there are a lot of us who would rather have the choice than not have it. If that's not acceptable to some then that's their decision however as a part of our network this DNS 'tomfoolery' is something that both we and the end user see benefits from so I don't see it going away anytime soon.To use your language, I don't understand how or why this could possibly be controversial. -- Apparently it is.-David
Regards, Andrew Cox AccessPlus HNA
Current thread:
- Re: What DNS Is Not, (continued)
- Re: What DNS Is Not Joe Greco (Nov 08)
- Re: What DNS Is Not Simon Lyall (Nov 08)
- Re: What DNS Is Not Joe Abley (Nov 08)
- Re: What DNS Is Not Paul Vixie (Nov 09)
- Re: What DNS Is Not Bill Stewart (Nov 09)
- Re: What DNS Is Not Valdis . Kletnieks (Nov 09)
- Re: What DNS Is Not Andrew Cox (Nov 09)
- Re: What DNS Is Not Jack Bates (Nov 09)
- Re: What DNS Is Not Alex Balashov (Nov 09)
- Re: What DNS Is Not David Ulevitch (Nov 09)
- Re: What DNS Is Not Andrew Cox (Nov 09)
- Re: What DNS Is Not John Peach (Nov 10)
- Re: What DNS Is Not sthaug (Nov 10)
- Re: What DNS Is Not Florian Weimer (Nov 11)
- RE: What DNS Is Not Jason Granat (Nov 11)
- Re: What DNS Is Not Patrick W. Gilmore (Nov 11)
- Re: What DNS Is Not sthaug (Nov 11)
- Re: What DNS Is Not Valdis . Kletnieks (Nov 11)
- Re: What DNS Is Not David Ulevitch (Nov 11)
- Re: What DNS Is Not Florian Weimer (Nov 12)
- Re: What DNS Is Not David Ulevitch (Nov 10)