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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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| 1383352 | 2014-09-08 00:56:00 | Well I set to use static IP address and the Google DNS for primary and one of Spark's for secondary, which worked OK for mobile phone and PC. Have not changed back to DHCP yet. Think I'll remain with Google DNS. Spark did provide both their DNS which worked OK. Odd how I could still browse when I forgot to add the 3rd digit for the third group/octet for the preferred DNS1. Thought they were supposed to be static? i.e. fixed DNS's. |
kahawai chaser (3545) | ||
| 1383353 | 2014-09-08 01:33:00 | Well I . . . Thought they were supposed to be static? i . e . fixed DNS's . "Fixed" is just not part of their modus operandi . . . "Broken" is written all through their DNA ;) |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 1383354 | 2014-09-08 03:26:00 | Telecom are spreading a line of BS :( :( | Zippity (58) | ||
| 1383355 | 2014-09-08 03:49:00 | Telecom are spreading a line of BS :( :( The excuse & blame seems to keep changing So why blame users to start with ?? It wasnt anything to do with users looking for those famous photos after all www.stuff.co.nz " Spark blames outage on bad modems " " Instead, the company said it had identified 138 older modems on its network that had a vulnerability that allowed hackers to route rogue traffic through those customers' internet connections to Spark's servers, without touching customers' home computers. Spark's servers were tricked into bombarding the hackers' targets. Spokesman Richard Llewellyn said 15 of the modems were supplied to customers by Spark, but he denied that they could have been supplied with the vulnerability. " While we are still investigating, it appears that some of these modems may have been reconfigured, " he said. " So 138 old modems can take out the countries largest ISP I use googles DNS, so it didnt even notice the outage. :-) |
1101 (13337) | ||
| 1383356 | 2014-09-08 03:59:00 | So 138 old modems can take out the countries largest ISP Sure, when you use them to exploit and leverage the bandwidth of other servers - that is how some DoS attacks work. As you already mentioned from the article in your post: the company said it had identified 138 older modems on its network that had a vulnerability that allowed hackers to route rogue traffic through those customers' internet connections to Spark's servers, without touching customers' home computers. Spark's servers were tricked into bombarding the hackers' targets. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1383357 | 2014-09-08 12:15:00 | Fool me once, shame on you . Fool me twice, shame on me . But fool me 138 times . . . ??????? |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 1383358 | 2014-09-08 20:44:00 | Standard usage is a bit different to a DoS attack. I mean other, larger DNS sever provide better targets for various attacks. How do they manage? |
Cato (6936) | ||
| 1383359 | 2014-09-08 20:56:00 | It wasn't a DOS attack, it was a Spark Arrestor ;) | R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 1383360 | 2014-09-08 21:57:00 | lol, very funny R2x1 | zqwerty (97) | ||
| 1383361 | 2014-09-09 00:49:00 | Hmmm, which modems Sparkle? The ancient D-link (most should have died by now anyway) or the Thomson ones -you know, the ones you sent out with the firewall disabled ;-) | Renegade (16270) | ||
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