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Re: Blaster Side Affect?
From: "Richard Spiers" <dksaarth () unix za net>
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 17:32:24 +0200
Yeah, can't give details because i'll only be able to look at the machine sometime next week, but I've had a friend phone me and complain that his windows 2000 server is now having trouble with DNS names. ----- Original Message ----- From: "henry j. mason" <hmason () dbsinet com> To: <full-disclosure () lists netsys com> Sent: Monday, August 18, 2003 3:22 PM Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] Blaster Side Affect?
about 1.5 weeks before the worm appeared, my windows 2000 machine stopped resolving DNS names. a reboot would solve the problem, then after an hour it would stop working again. networking was fine otherwise - resolving hosts via the hosts file worked and you could reach machines by numeric ip address. restarting the DNS client service did nothing. in fact, i never found a solution, and ended up installing windows on new hardware and moving my files over. what a waste of time. i have no idea if this is related to the worm or just a bug in windows (god forbid). but since your symptoms appear to be similar i thought i would mention it. if this is your problem, and you find a fix, i'd really like to know about it... regards, henry Adam wrote:My apologies if this is a stupid question. I haven't seen this
mentioned on
the list yet and I haven't heard about until today when some customers called. It seems that after they get the worm ( which I have been
telling
the to update since July...go figure ) and remove it. They can no longer
get
to any websites. Checked all the settings and they are good. They can
ping
outside there network and get email through outlook. Just can't browse
any
websites? Anyone heard of this or why it is happening? Or how to fix
it.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Adam Richards _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html_______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
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Current thread:
- Blaster Side Affect? Adam (Aug 15)
- Re: Blaster Side Affect? henry j. mason (Aug 18)
- Re: Blaster Side Affect? Richard Spiers (Aug 18)
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- RE: Blaster Side Affect? Bassett, Mark (Aug 18)
- Re: Blaster Side Affect? henry j. mason (Aug 18)