On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 02:49:02PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > William Sutton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My understanding is that the > > later Linksys NAT routers try to query dynamic dns sites periodically to > > see if they have a domain they should be attached to (dyndns.org has some > > info on this; basically a bunch of Linksys routers caused them a DDoS by > > querying the wrong (hard coded) dns server). > > DynamicDNS is an option on the Linksys, but it's disabled. But > perhaps it's a NTP lookup? > > Time to setup an Ethereal box...grrrrrr.
NTP timesetting maybe? I know there were some issue a while back with Netgear boxen effectively creating a ddos because of this 'feature': http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~plonka/netgear-sntp/ --Brian -- Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because if there be one he must approve of the homage of reason more than that of blindfolded fear. --Thomas Jefferson, Aug. 10, 1787 Brian Daniels [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.eviloverlord.net -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
