Re: Hackers hijack 300, 000-plus wireless routers, make malicious changes | Ars Technica

[Jay Ashworth <jra () baylink com>]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "jim deleskie" <deleskie () gmail com>

> Why swing such a big hammer. Even blocking those 2 IP's will
> isolate your users, and fill your support queue's.
>
> Set up a DNS server locally to reply to those IP's Your customers stay up
> and running and blissfully unaware.
>
> Log the IP's hitting your DNS servers on those IP and have your support
> reach out to them in a controlled way, or reply to any request via DNS
> with an internal host that has a web page explaining what is broken
> and how they can fix it avoiding at least some of the calls to your helpdesk.

Jim's right, of course.  In my defense, it *was* 9 am, and I hadn't had
any caffeine yet.  ;-}

Cheers,
-- jra
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