Level3/GTEI well-known DNS down?
Jay Hennigan
jay at west.net
Sat Jan 19 18:14:09 UTC 2008
Joe Provo wrote:
> Open resolvers are seriously abused by botnets and related baddies.
> Perhaps you might need to run a set of resolvers, or get your service
> provider[s] to give you something similar to well-tuned anycasted
> resolvers.
Rumor from a previous discussion of these "well known" resolvers was
that they were deliberately encouraging their use by non-customers,
data-mining the lookups for marketing purposes, and selling the
statistical results.
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