[AusNOG] Telstra manipulating DNS to block botnets

[Mark Andrews]

In message <60828CFFDBEBA946AC54D9293505E84D0149F30DC60B at sssydmail01.stratsec.l
ocal>, Eric Pinkerton writes:
> Let's also not forget, that it's more and more the case today that people hav
> e multiple machines connected to their home router including smartphones, lap
> tops, DVD players, Tablets, Games Consoles, Media Centres etc etc - and so qu
> arantining the entire connection because one of those machines is infected ca
> n be far more disruptive to your customers than it once was.

Which in turn makes it all the more important that the customer is
informed of the problem so they can rectify the problem.  All those
machines are within the home network so there is potential for
elevated levels of trust of the infected machine.

Mark
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