What's going on this evening ?

Using Fast4 adsl and since early evening certain sites like yahoo
groups won't connect, I can't connect to the news server in outlook
express either and can't send email. Anyone else ?

pcbh fan wrote:

> Using Fast4 adsl and since early evening certain sites like yahoo
> groups won't connect, I can't connect to the news server in outlook
> express either and can't send email. Anyone else ?
>


QHosts seems to be catching a few people out. I don't know if that might
apply here, I haven't looked at the details of QHosts yet...

alex


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> Using Fast4 adsl and since early evening certain sites like yahoo
> groups won't connect, I can't connect to the news server in outlook
> express either and can't send email. Anyone else ?

I had something similar two days ago (not Fast4 though). I suddenly couldn't
get my mail, see anything on the internet, except Google. Another machine in
my house was fine.

I tried pinging domains, no joy. I was just about to re-install WinXP
(arrgh) when I tried pinging the IP address of a domain. It worked -
therefore a problem with DNS. Looked at my IP properties, and the "obtain
DNS address automatically" was unchecked and an IP address was in the
"obtain DNS manually" setting. Of course I set it back to automatic and all
was well.

But I wished I has made a note of the IP address, it might have given me a
clue as to how this happened. I believe that I'm fairly well protected
(hardware firewall and active anti-virus software), but could this have been
a malicious act on someone else's part?

Anyone else seen this?

Cheers

Nick

Nick Shaw wrote:

> I had something similar two days ago (not Fast4 though). I suddenly
> couldn't get my mail, see anything on the internet, except Google. Another
> machine in my house was fine.
>
> I tried pinging domains, no joy. I was just about to re-install WinXP
> (arrgh) when I tried pinging the IP address of a domain. It worked -
> therefore a problem with DNS. Looked at my IP properties, and the "obtain
> DNS address automatically" was unchecked and an IP address was in the
> "obtain DNS manually" setting. Of course I set it back to automatic and
> all was well.
>
> But I wished I has made a note of the IP address, it might have given me a
> clue as to how this happened. I believe that I'm fairly well protected
> (hardware firewall and active anti-virus software), but could this have
> been a malicious act on someone else's part?
>
> Anyone else seen this?

There is a worm doing the rounds which changes the victim's DNS settings in
order to force download of its payload. The sites involved have been taken
down so it should not cause any further damage.

NTBugtraq had the details last week.
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Dave