North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: ad.doubleclick.net missing from DNS?
Now the question is, can one easily block all of doubleclick.net by 127.0.0.1 in the hosts file on a wincrash box? They appear to have ad, ad2, ad3, m2, m3.doubleclick.net. Anyone know what hosts to list??? (ie: ad2, ad3 ... to ad<x>???) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Henry Linneweh" <[email protected]> To: "Sean Donelan" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2004 17:10 Subject: Re: ad.doubleclick.net missing from DNS? > > While I disagree with the method of the attacker, I > can understand the reasoning behind an attack on a > company that is considered a spyware company, > doubleclick certainly has turned up more than once on > my version of spybot as a site to block..... > > -Henry > > --- Sean Donelan <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18735-2004Jul27.html > > DoubleClick spokeswoman Jennifer Blum said the > > attack targeted the > > company's domain name servers (DNS) -- machines > > that help direct > > Internet traffic -- causing "severe service > > disruptions" for all 900 of > > its customers. Blum said the outage was caused by > > a distributed > > denial-of-service attack, in which hackers use the > > firepower of > > thousands of hijacked computers to flood a Web > > site with so many bogus > > Web page requests that it renders the site > > unavailable to legitimate > > users. > > [...] > > The FBI is not investigating the incident because > > DoubleClick has not > > filed a report, said bureau spokeswoman Megan > > Baroska. > > > > > > >
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