On Friday 25 November 2005 19:09, Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote: >I've got to agree that the TTL criteria doesn't necessarily reflect >reality... at least in these parts. > >Using SORBS' "self-help" system, I can delist my residential cable IP >which is "pseudo-static" but I cannot delist my business DSL IP which > is static (and 3 times the price). > >Of course, my business DSL provider could be less brain dead and not > set a 30 min TTL for their entire forward zone (and 1 day for their > reverse zone), but I suspect there are lots of people out there in the > same situation. > >Too bad the telco is the only game in town. At least their DNS servers >haven't been rooted this week (yet, anyway).
I'm sure glad you added the (yet, anyway) qualification Daryl, cause they do get it, regularly. I'd think they were on a monthly exlax schedule at times. Whats worse, they rely on us, the users, to alert them that their winderz box has been rooted, again. I scan my firewalls logs daily for portsentry hits from their addresses & send them nastygrams when I find one. 1 being all portsentry allows before it shuts it off & I don't have a dns. Again. But since I got rid of the speedstream router I was using, my firewall box hasn't been touched since. Portsentry is a nice little utility. Like a German Shepard with a short temper and sharp teeth. Rather nice feeling that... Thats not all that sleeping with one eye open here though. Come to think of it, M$ must have fixed that hole finally, its been 6 months or so since the last attackalert was logged. Do ya 'spose? >Daryl -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.36% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
