World's biggest ISPs drag feet on critical DNS patch

[Gary]

Ok im selling my pc and getting a years supply of sedatives to cope with the boredom

[somanyholes]

dns server patching video.. worldwide

http://security4all.blogspot.com/2008/08/dns-patching-video-watch-how-fast-dns.html

[Rik]

Fascinating. The US seemed very slow to respond.

[Gary]

Fascinating. The US seemed very slow to respond.

Its hard to move fast with a shake and a burger in your hand, Rik

[Rik]

Oh, I don't know, Gary.

[Gary]

Oh, I don't know, Gary.

[Gary]

Oh, I don't know, Gary.

Well it is fast food, Rik, So maybe it does help

[Rik]

At some point in the digestive cycle, anyway.

[Gary]

At some point in the digestive cycle, anyway.

[Sebby]

Its hard to move fast with a shake and a burger in your hand, Rik

I wouldn't know.

[Gary]

I wouldn't know.

I just don't move fast Sebby

[esh]

Looks like someone wrote some exploit code to get around the patch. Takes a lot longer now for it to work, but you know what they say, persistence is all!

[Rik]

Once more we enter the cycle of measure and counter-measure. Life used to be simpler.

[esh]

Back to using /etc/hosts then?

[Rik]

I was thinking more of carrier pigeons.

[XR219]

There is an RFC for IP via carrier pigeon... http://rfc.net/rfc2549.html 

Always best to use Open DNS for your DNS servers, much better than any ISP's 

[Sebby]

I was using OpenDNS for quite a while, then I reverted back to IDNet's and pages seemed to load much quicker. I'm not sure there's a lot in it if your ISP has good DNS', which I think IDNet do.