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From: "J.  Roeleveld" <joost@antarean.org>
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 19:14:33 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <41864781-502B-4236-8B40-4347F6D7135C@antarean.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150310181612.GA4128@solfire>

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 

--
Joost 
-- 
Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-03-10 19:14 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 [this message]
2015-03-10 19:35   ` wabenbau
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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