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W2K and MAC OS9 Flood Root Nameservers?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the unintentional-dos dept.

wizzy writes "Irelands toplevel domain registry has a notice on Microsoft and Apple DHCP clients sending dynamic DNS updates per RFC2136. The problem is they are not sufficiently careful about where they send it if they are in RFC1918 space - usually used for behind-firewall addressing, which is where they usually are.. This is resulting in bogus updates being sent at the rate of nearly one million an hour to root nameservers, only to be rejected - as reported on the NANOG mailing list."

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  1. Upgrade time! by JHromadka · · Score: 3, Funny

    With Photoshop 7 out and this, now Mac OS9 users have an even better reason to upgrade to OS X - "to save the Internet." :)

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  2. Microsofts answer by caluml · · Score: 3, Funny

    A Microsoft spokesman said, "Thing is, is that those root nameservers would all be fine if they were running Win2K DNS services. " :)

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  3. Re:this is a bit complex for me.. by blixel · · Score: 4, Funny

    why is this the first time that anyone's noticed this?

    You think that just because you read this article on Slashdot today that it was "just noticed" as of yesterday or something?

  4. MS-DOS by sarcast · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hasn't MS had this around for a while now?

    They even called it MS-DOS...oh wait, that was Disk Operating System...nevermind.

  5. Frequency by rant-mode-on · · Score: 4, Funny

    How often does Win2K register these ip addresses? Is it once an hour or so, or is there really a million win2k boxes being rebooted every hour?