[Noisebridge-discuss] WiFi down again last night.

Jonathan Lassoff jof at thejof.com
Thu Oct 4 22:31:41 UTC 2012


On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 2:58 PM, Jake <jake at spaz.org> wrote:
> you don't really think minotaur is on a botnet do you?  i thought that only
> happened to windows machines.

What? No.
Some remote hosts on customer internet access circuits were making
these bogus, but relatively expensive requests of Minotaur, which had
its DNS server open to the Internet.

I presume the seemingly-random, global, remote hosts were just part of
some botnet.

--j



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