Multiple different ISPs respond to Bots (was RE: DNS Hijacking by Cox)

Mon Jul 23 03:24:20 UTC 2007

On Sun, 22 Jul 2007, Raymond L. Corbin wrote:
> I agree. They are at least trying to clean up their network. If they are
> having a lot of problems with zombie bots that DDoS / Spam then this is
> a good way to stop it, for now. The small group of users can either use
> other nameservers or something like psybnc to connect if they want to
> get on IRC.

It doesn't seem to be rogue Cox engineers.  Several major ISPs have all 
taken action against these particular IRC servers (not! IRC in general).
They either re-direct the traffic to a cleaning server, or are blackholing 
the traffic completely.

Yes, it could have been some type of false positive; but when multiple 
ISPs all start re-acting to something, I think there might be more to the 
story.  Especially when those ISPs are noted for not responding to 
incidents.  One ISP, it might be the ISP.  Multiple ISPs, gotta start 
looking at what has them disturbed.

Its hard to wake those dragons.