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Thread ID: 137902	2014-09-05 23:24:00	The spark has gone out....	lakewoodlady (103)	PC World Chat

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1383322	2014-09-06 05:54:00	And how hard is it to set up a few rules to block access to machines spamming the DNS? Just log the IP of every machine accessing the DNS. Any with more than 100 hits in a 10 second interval get their connection reset. Problem largely solved - at least from my limited understanding. It seems they can't: "They've been working all night to identify where those information requests are coming from and close them down," Roberts said, but he added the situation was "dynamic" and the dodgy information requests kept changing. "Once they've identified one, it shifts to another." (www.nzherald.co.nz) If it weren't for noddies creating malware, spark wouldn't be having this problem. My beef is with the anarchists on this one. Calling it malware doesn't make sense. It sounds like someone is purposefully DoS attacking their DNS servers to make them look bad. I've been running with OpenDNS and no problems all day once I switched DNS servers. Rest of the connection is fine. Started last night. That's when I found out the Thomson VDSL router spoofs IP addresses in 198.18.1.x range when DNS falls over.	Agent_24 (57)
1383323	2014-09-06 08:12:00	Moi? I'm sick of always hearing how fantastic Telecom is/was and how bad Vodafone is/was. Isn't' it great when the shoe is on the other foot? :) I'm on Vodafone/Telstra Cable -- and to be honest I cant remember when the internet was down for more then a minute or two. If Spark are blaming customers for having malware then they obviously cant handle the traffic. If it were malware why is it not stopping Vodafone and other ISP's. Oh Right -- Only people on Spark get malware -----Hey!! theres a good advert for other ISP's :D	wainuitech (129)
1383324	2014-09-06 08:19:00	No problems at all here. I am using Open DNS and I understand that those using Googles DNS also have no problems.	CliveM (6007)
1383325	2014-09-06 08:22:00	Now they're blaming customers who tried to find those naked celeb pics (www.stuff.co.nz). Downloaded something (maybe clicking on tweets), and it attacked the rest of the world Good thing I'm not on Twitter then :p Looks like a lot of people got back on by changing DNS ips to Google's or something else	Speedy Gonzales (78)
1383326	2014-09-06 08:40:00	No problems here on Snap fibre	gary67 (56)
1383327	2014-09-06 08:43:00	It appears to have been an amplified DDoS against spark's DNS. Joy. Oh well, it just means my Spark fibre has been performing more like my Vodafone fibre for the last day or so. At least for the former it's temporary, and can be resolved by using Google DNS. Their explanations are a bit poor, though, as it does come across as blame shifting, but it also feels like an attempt t o be a bit more honest about things... they just need to perhaps be more ready to acknowledge they should be able to address this a lot faster and smoother.	inphinity (7274)
1383328	2014-09-06 08:45:00	If you remember back to the Go Large fiasco when download speeds became similar to dialup, Telecom were blaming the problem on customers back then also. I had left them in disgust before they more or less admitted they had a software problem.	Terry Porritt (14)
1383329	2014-09-06 08:58:00	It is pretty disappointing they don't have better processes in place to detect & block these sorts of things. That said, it took both Sony & Microsoft a while to counter the DDoS attacks on the PSN and Xbox Live networks recently.	inphinity (7274)
1383330	2014-09-06 09:01:00	Didnt have probs here with Xbox Live. Been on it for the last week. Didnt notice any major probs with it	Speedy Gonzales (78)
1383331	2014-09-06 09:34:00	XNet seems fine, their customers don't seem to know how to do the "xtra/sparc/yahoo oops - you're out dance". Startup Problems And Related Kaputs ;) Spark - starting as they mean to continue, Giving their users the experiences.	R2x1 (4628)
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