Re: Is There a Virus that Breaks DNS?
From: Charles Newman (charlesnewman1_at_comcast.do.not.spam.me.net)
Date: 08/25/05
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Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 22:18:25 -0700
"Moe Trin" <ibuprofin@painkiller.example.tld> wrote in message
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> In the Usenet newsgroup comp.security.firewalls, in article
> <NpCdnZCgE_5vJ5HeRVn-tQ@comcast.com>, Charles Newman wrote:
>
> >"Shneor" <shneor@my-deja.com> wrote
>
> >> I appear to have lost DNS functionality on my W2K box. No problem to
> >> get to a URL (e.g., 121.230.140.99), but dns does not work. A linux box
> >> on the same oruter has no problem whatsoever.
>
> Did you miss this?
>
> > Could be your ISP's DNS server as well.
>
> Much more likely to be a windoze or DHCP problem.
Sometimes Comcast's DNS server breaks, and
when that happens, I get the same kinds of problems
as the OP. I can specify a web site by the IP number,
but not by the Web address
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