[Outages-discussion] www.dns-ok.us down

[Eric J Esslinger]

We verified one a while back, who had already had the problem fixed when the FBI sent us the physical mail.  Concidering number of internet customers in the US vs our internet customers with known number of US subsribers affected at it's height, I figure if the percentages are good we've taken care of several times the number of likely cases on our network with that one customer.
*wink*
I'm told by various sources to expect similar stories on the nightly national news programs tonight, with a similar 'call your isp' ending.
I've also heard the site IS reachable via ipv6 and they are dealing with the load issues as we speak (and some people are getting through, albiet slowly).

I'm pretty comfortable about my network; I've been catching dns lookup destinations from my users for months (not contents, just destination ip's) and the list of outside addresses covers most of the well know public dns servers (open dns, google, etc...) with the exception of a handful that seem to be running their own full blown recursive caching servers, which go everywhere looking for authoritative lookups. (One I knew about, he complains because I won't allow his basic cable account act as an open server for his DNS when he's out of town. If he wants a static IP I can arrange opening the port, till then... He is always welcome to VPN into his home network as well.)

Been having callers look up their IP, then checking the query logs to see if they hit our dns servers. So far I'm at 100%

I thought of whipping up a script for my recursive DNS servers to setup a webpage to let them see if they were accessing those servers, but I just don't have time right now (fiscal year just started and everyone wants their projects done 'now'.)

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Eric Esslinger
Information Services Manager - Fayetteville Public Utilities
http://www.fpu-tn.com/
(931)433-1522 ext 165



> -----Original Message-----
> From: outages-discussion-bounces at outages.org
> [mailto:outages-discussion-bounces at outages.org] On Behalf Of
> Bradley Jordan
> Sent: Friday, July 06, 2012 12:24 PM
> To: outages-discussion at outages.org
> Subject: Re: [Outages-discussion] www.dns-ok.us down
>
>
> CNN is only claiming that 70K users in the US are estimated
> to be affected.
>
> On Jul 6, 2012, at 10:04 AM, Frank Bulk wrote:
>
> > I received an email this morning from a legitimate company peddling
> > their DNS Trojan Remover support services. =)
> >
> > Frank
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: outages-bounces at outages.org
> [mailto:outages-bounces at outages.org]
> > On Behalf Of Eric J Esslinger
> > Sent: Friday, July 06, 2012 11:40 AM
> > To: 'outages at outages.org'
> > Subject: [outages] www.dns-ok.us down
> >
> > As per subject, the DNS Changer Working Group (DCWG) site
> for the US
> > is down atm. Also another very probably related issue;
> Foxnews, CNN,
> > and MSNBC have all apparantly run stories in the last few
> hours about
> > how the internet end is nigh, everyone is infected, and if you have
> > any questions call your isp. (Hype levels varied per
> channel, I'm told
> > as well).
> >
> > __________________________
> > Eric Esslinger
> > Information Services Manager - Fayetteville Public Utilities
> > http://www.fpu-tn.com/ (931)433-1522 ext 165
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