[TriLUG] Linksys advice

[sholton at mindspring.com]

William Sutton <william at trilug.org> wrote:
> My understanding is that the 
> later Linksys NAT routers try to query dynamic dns sites periodically to 
> see if they have a domain they should be attached to (dyndns.org has some 
> info on this; basically a bunch of Linksys routers caused them a DDoS by 
> querying the wrong (hard coded) dns server).

DynamicDNS is an option on the Linksys, but it's disabled. But
perhaps it's a NTP lookup?  

Time to setup an Ethereal box...grrrrrr.




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Steve Holton
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