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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. Popular domains by SealBeater · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Another problem is that people are naming their boxes after popular domains
    that they don't own, and the dynamic updates are pounding the hell out of the
    domain owners nameservers. If anyone here is doing this, owl.com and jove.com
    were two of the domains named.

    Sealbeater

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