botnets! Re: (OT) Re: weird wget/curl problems

[Net Llama!]

On Sun, 13 Aug 2006, Ken Moffat wrote:
> Net Llama! wrote:
>> On Sun, 13 Aug 2006, Ken Moffat wrote:
>>
>>> On 8/12/06, Tim Wunder <tim at thewunders.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>>> On Saturday 12 August 2006 12:57 pm, Net Llama! wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> OK, turns out I wasn't crazy, and its not me.  My ISP seems to be causing
>>>>>> this mess:
>>>>>> http://freedns.afraid.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=3467
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>
>>> Whoa, this url seems to be off the air. Check out the message there.
>>>
>>
>> Yea, freedns.afraid.org was apparently attacked overnight be some
>> nefarious botnet.  Its back up now, but they are desprately in need of
>> additional backup nameservers.  If anyone here is feeling generous, let me
>> know.
>>
>>
>
> What do you need to run a nameserver of that capacity?

See here (assuming that its not down again due to the attacks):
http://freedns.afraid.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=14658#14658

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