RE: DNS poisoning at Google?

[Matthew Black <Matthew.Black () csulb edu>]

Running Apache on three Solaris webservers behind a load balancer. No MS Windows!

Not sure how malicious software could get between our load balancer and Unix servers. Thanks for the tip!

matthew black
information technology services
california state university, long beach



From: Landon Stewart [mailto:lstewart () superb net]
Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2012 9:07 PM
To: Matthew Black
Cc: nanog () nanog org
Subject: Re: DNS poisoning at Google?

Is it possible that some malicious software is listening and injecting a redirect on the wire?  We've seen this before 
with a Windows machine being infected.
On 26 June 2012 20:53, Matthew Black <Matthew.Black () csulb edu<mailto:Matthew.Black () csulb edu>> wrote:
Google Safe Browsing and Firefox have marked our website as containing malware. They claim our home page returns no 
results, but redirects users to another compromised website couchtarts.com<http://couchtarts.com>.

We have thoroughly examined our root .htaccess and httpd.conf files and are not redirecting to the problem target site. 
No recent changes either.

We ran some NSLOOKUPs against various public DNS servers and intermittently get results that are NOT our servers.

We believe the DNS servers used by Google's crawler have been poisoned.

Can anyone shed some light on this?

matthew black
information technology services
california state university, long beach
www.csulb.edu<http://www.csulb.edu><http://www.csulb.edu>



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