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Re: ad.doubleclick.net missing from DNS?
From: "John Palmer" <nanog () adns net>
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 17:21:26 -0500
Now the question is, can one easily block all of doubleclick.net by 127.0.0.1 in the hosts file on a wincrash box? They appear to have ad, ad2, ad3, m2, m3.doubleclick.net. Anyone know what hosts to list??? (ie: ad2, ad3 ... to ad<x>???) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Henry Linneweh" <hrlinneweh () sbcglobal net> To: "Sean Donelan" <sean () donelan com>; <nanog () merit edu> Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2004 17:10 Subject: Re: ad.doubleclick.net missing from DNS?
While I disagree with the method of the attacker, I can understand the reasoning behind an attack on a company that is considered a spyware company, doubleclick certainly has turned up more than once on my version of spybot as a site to block..... -Henry --- Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com> wrote:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18735-2004Jul27.htmlDoubleClick spokeswoman Jennifer Blum said the attack targeted the company's domain name servers (DNS) -- machines that help direct Internet traffic -- causing "severe service disruptions" for all 900 of its customers. Blum said the outage was caused by a distributed denial-of-service attack, in which hackers use the firepower of thousands of hijacked computers to flood a Web site with so many bogus Web page requests that it renders the site unavailable to legitimate users. [...] The FBI is not investigating the incident because DoubleClick has not filed a report, said bureau spokeswoman Megan Baroska.
Current thread:
- ad.doubleclick.net missing from DNS? Sean Donelan (Jul 27)
- Re: ad.doubleclick.net missing from DNS? Ricardo "Rick" Gonzalez (Jul 27)
- YNT: ad.doubleclick.net missing from DNS? Mehmet Akcin (Jul 27)
- Re: ad.doubleclick.net missing from DNS? Stephen Stuart (Jul 27)
- Re: ad.doubleclick.net missing from DNS? Peter Corlett (Jul 27)
- Re: ad.doubleclick.net missing from DNS? Marcus Reid (Jul 27)
- Re: ad.doubleclick.net missing from DNS? Chris Adams (Jul 27)
- Re: ad.doubleclick.net missing from DNS? Karsten W. Rohrbach (Jul 27)
- Re: ad.doubleclick.net missing from DNS? Sean Donelan (Jul 27)
- Re: ad.doubleclick.net missing from DNS? Henry Linneweh (Jul 27)
- Re: ad.doubleclick.net missing from DNS? John Palmer (Jul 27)
- Re: ad.doubleclick.net missing from DNS? John Hall (Jul 27)
- Re: ad.doubleclick.net missing from DNS? Chris Brenton (Jul 27)
- Re: ad.doubleclick.net missing from DNS? Paul Vixie (Jul 27)
- Re: ad.doubleclick.net missing from DNS? Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. (Jul 27)
- Re: ad.doubleclick.net missing from DNS? Paul Vixie (Jul 28)
- Re: ad.doubleclick.net missing from DNS? Chris Brenton (Jul 27)
- Re: ad.doubleclick.net missing from DNS? Henry Linneweh (Jul 27)
- Re: ad.doubleclick.net missing from DNS? Ricardo "Rick" Gonzalez (Jul 27)
- Re: ad.doubleclick.net missing from DNS? Eric A. Hall (Jul 28)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: ad.doubleclick.net missing from DNS? Robert Bonomi (Jul 27)