19 Jan
2008
19 Jan
'08
6:14 p.m.
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. -- Jay Hennigan - CCIE #7880 - Network Engineering - jay@impulse.net Impulse Internet Service - http://www.impulse.net/ Your local telephone and internet company - 805 884-6323 - WB6RDV