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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