Re: [PLUG] Comcast is Messing with My DNS

[Stephen Gran <steve@lobefin.net>]

On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 08:29:19PM -0400, George A. Theall said:
> On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 04:33:08PM -0400, Casey Bralla wrote:
> 
> > I can understand filter 
> > the eMail port, since this is an anti-spam action, but this is all starting to get 
> > old.
> 
> I wonder if they're doing this to try to combat botnets that use Double
> FastFlux, where machines can act not only as web servers hosting
> malicious content but also DNS servers for the associated domains. 

Yes, I think so.  It's a bit of a pain for people on comcast, but these
days it may be the only responsible thing for an ISP to do.
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