From: <wabenbau@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Mysterious vanishing of DNS entry of www.youtube.com...was I hacked?
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2015 20:35:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150310203519.4f686154@hal9000.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41864781-502B-4236-8B40-4347F6D7135C@antarean.org>
Am Dienstag, 10.03.2015 um 19:14
schrieb "J. Roeleveld" <joost@antarean.org>:
> On 10 March 2015 19:16:12 CET, Meino.Cramer@gmx.de wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >the following happens some minutes before:
> >I was searching on youtube for some reviews...
> >and suddenly BOOM: "Server not found: Unknow host"
> >
> >I restarted firefox...which did not help.
> >
> >I did a ping & traceroute to www.youtube.com from
> >the commandline...same results...
> >
> >Wireshark shows the DNS query to my DSL modem...
> >and the answer was that from above.
> >
> >I rebooted my Gentoo box...no help...
> >
> >The problem vanishes as I powercycled my DSL modem.
> >
> >Any other access was working the whole time.
> >
> >Was my DSL modem hacked?
> >Does anyone else noticed a glithc in the matrix?
> >
> >Best regards,
> >mcc
>
> Most modems and routers have really bad DNS proxies. I tend to either
> run my own or use Googles DNS: 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4
I don't like the idea that google is getting all information about my
DNS queries. ;-)
I usually prefer the DNS servers from my ISP as forwarding servers for
my router (which has a proper working DNS proxy). These DNS servers are
just a few hops away and therefore responding very fast.
--
Regards
wabe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-03-10 19:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-03-10 18:16 [gentoo-user] [OT] Mysterious vanishing of DNS entry of www.youtube.com...was I hacked? Meino.Cramer
2015-03-10 19:09 ` wabenbau
2015-03-10 19:14 ` J. Roeleveld
2015-03-10 19:35 ` wabenbau [this message]
2015-03-11 0:10 ` Justin Findlay
2015-03-11 9:28 ` Adam Carter
2015-03-11 22:31 ` wabenbau
2015-03-10 19:30 ` bitlord
2015-03-10 20:34 ` [gentoo-user] " James
2015-03-10 21:03 ` [gentoo-user] " Walter Dnes
2015-03-11 9:24 ` Peter Humphrey
2015-03-11 9:28 ` Stroller
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