[GRLUG] dns hijacking

[john-thomas richards]

On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 02:37:54PM -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> 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.

That's helpful.  Thanks.
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john-thomas
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