On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 8:46 AM, Balasubramaniam Natarajan <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > I don't have a working example. However my doubt is what if my ISP is >> > infected with DNS changer even when my GNU/LINUX is not.
> The advantage with this test is that though you PC may not be infected we > can help our ISP solve the problem which they have not noticed yet. I > heard that there are still around 50K PC around the world infected with > this malware. Most times their tech support is clueless about basic networking issues. When I tell them that I cannot ping their GW IP on the far side of my DSL connection (the end point of the first hop), the chaps insist that I ping some other IP number which is beyond their own gateway! Expecting them to understand DNS poisoning - you are a brave man. Personally, I use my own DNS server (bind) built into the gateway. -- Arun Khan _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
