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Re: you're not interesting, was Re: another brick in the wall[ed garden]


From: Andre Gironda <andre () operations net>
Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 17:25:53 -0700

On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 4:58 PM, Mark Andrews <Mark_Andrews () isc org> wrote:
If I were an ISP, and I knew that approximately 99.9% of customer
queries to random name servers was malware doing fake site phishing or
misconfigured PCs that will work OK and avoid a support call if they
answer the DNS query, with 0.1% being old weenies like us, I'd do what
Sprint's doing, too.

       And what's the next protocol that is going to be stomped on?

I was going to say, "will the ISP also remove the DNS MITM the day
that 99.9% of malware moves its command-and-control to the HTTP or
other layer?". I figured why bother - but your point drives it home
even further.

dre


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