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Road Runner Hawaii Vulnerable to DNS Threat

Posted by geeknews at 2:55 AM on July 23, 2008

A Significant DNS threat that is now on the loose on the Internet is set to really cause mayhem in a really bad way. So tonight I did a quick check of Road Runner Hawaii and the Time Warner system here and found that the system administrators here have not patched their DNS servers yet.

BetaNews Try your site via the DNS Checker on this site

Explanation on how bad this can be!

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One Comment

  1. From mark schneider at 11:48 pm on July 23, 2008

    Open DNS does not suffer from this vulnerability. You can prevent this potential exploit by changing your routers settings to the Open DNS settings provided for free. http://www.opendns.com/