[GRLUG] dns hijacking

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Thu, 2009-08-13 at 13:44 -0400, john-thomas richards wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 11:09:26AM -0400, Benjamin Flanders wrote:
> > I've tried OpenDNS multiple times but it seems to have a lot of
> > issues.  A couple times a week it couldn't find google.com or more
> > often than that it had trouble finding about half of the Google maps
> > tiles  I would have to refresh about 3 times for all the map to show
> > up.  This was a while ago so maybe they have fixed things.
> I'm wading into things I really don't have the chops to discuss, but how
> would that be an OpenDNS problem?  Since you were able to load part of
> the map, you were able to get to maps.google.com.  (This may be a
> *really* dumb question, I admit.)

Possibly - I have no idea how Google Maps work - but they can farm out
requests to images1.google.com images2.google.com, etc... so you *might*
get a rapid fire series of DNS requests.