March 20 DNS problems - Place your bets

**Xtreame96** · #1 (**permalink**) 20th March 2009, 01:32

Hi,

Ok my theories are:

A) DNS poisoning
B) Server migration (not so likely)

Place your bets:

**Xtreame96** · #2 (**permalink**) 20th March 2009, 01:34

Oh and this IP range looks familiar:

http://www.websiteoutlook.com/www.searchalligator.com

**banana_fish** · #3 (**permalink**) 20th March 2009, 01:37

sounds like DNS poisoning
but why...?

**Xtreame96** · #4 (**permalink**) 20th March 2009, 01:48

Well if you look at that site I would guess it jacks about 10K a day worth of banner traffic. would be why they do it, the ip range would be my clue as to the dns being altered.

**banana_fish** · #5 (**permalink**) 20th March 2009, 01:51

ahh i see
thank you for explaining

how would you go about fixing it? i dont understand how one could just fix it?

**Xtreame96** · #6 (**permalink**) 20th March 2009, 01:56

REF: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS_cache_poisoning

Option 1: you submit an update of all zones, and patch the problem so it does not just happen again.

Option 2: you setup a dns server and you use the same dirty trick to corrupt your records back to what they should be.

Messy but effective.

**Xtreame96** · #7 (**permalink**) 20th March 2009, 03:31

How to prevent the current problem and stay locked into dot com.

Open notepad and open

C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

add this line to the bottom:

85.17.230.227 www.final4ever.com

that will lock you in till the problem is solved.

Xtreame