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Re: Level3/GTEI well-known DNS down?

  • From: Jay Hennigan
  • Date: Sat Jan 19 13:17:54 2008

Joe Provo wrote:


Open resolvers are seriously abused by botnets and related baddies. Perhaps you might need to run a set of resolvers, or get your service
provider[s] to give you something similar to well-tuned anycasted
resolvers.

Rumor from a previous discussion of these "well known" resolvers was that they were deliberately encouraging their use by non-customers, data-mining the lookups for marketing purposes, and selling the statistical results.

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