Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> writes:
> http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/19/2325235
One of my old coworkers sent me this. Actually, DNS and DHCP are combined
at charter in all the DOCSIS systems that I know of. Typically they use the Cisco
provided DHCP/DNS server which is a combined piece of software (it has it's pluses
and minuses. Overall, it makes sense for the Cable modem setup and has features
specifically designed to support that environment)
The thing is, I'm seriously doubting the DHCP/DNS servers were hacked. Read down
in the comments of the article. It looks a heck of a lot more like the user's
windows box was compromised by spywayre/adware and that his DNS requests were
being locally redirected. Feel free to google for tdko.com to see what
I'm talking about.
That said, the customer service reponse he received was really poor.
An abuse issue, especially one that appears at first blush to be an
attack on Charter-owned equipment should have been treated more
seriously.
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