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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. Re:Great. Yet Another Bandaid(arrogant putz) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Troll



    The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) has reserved the following three blocks of the IP address space for private internets:

    10.0.0.0 - 10.255.255.255 (10/8 prefix)
    172.16.0.0 - 172.31.255.255 (172.16/12 prefix)
    192.168.0.0 - 192.168.255.255 (192.168/16 prefix)

    Are you saying that someone using any of the addresses above is safe from script kiddies?

    HA HA HA HA HA HA

    Still need a firewall for these addresses moron. To connect to internet you need a valid IP address provided by your ISP (dhcp or static IP) and that is how script kiddies get in to your supposedly safe private internet.

    Sounds like you need a bandaid for that big oozing ball of puss you use for a head.