Boring Computer Question: WTF? Internet not working except for ILX?

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For some reason nothing will work on my internet right now except for ILX. How is that possible?

― Hurting (Hurting), Thursday, 7 April 2005 22:37 (twenty years ago)

we won!

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 7 April 2005 22:39 (twenty years ago)

Maybe we're the last people left alive on earth.

― Hurting (Hurting), Thursday, 7 April 2005 22:40 (twenty years ago)

Nah, I managed to get to that wierd Ms MacDonalds Girl's LJ site. Maybe it's just ILX and her left to repopulate.

― Craig Gilchrist (Craig Gilchrist), Thursday, 7 April 2005 22:41 (twenty years ago)

But basic stuff like Google and Yahoo won't come up for me.

― Hurting (Hurting), Thursday, 7 April 2005 22:41 (twenty years ago)

Oops, there they are again.

― Hurting (Hurting), Thursday, 7 April 2005 22:42 (twenty years ago)

we lost :(

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 7 April 2005 22:43 (twenty years ago)

No, sorry, google works now but other things still don't.

― Hurting (Hurting), Thursday, 7 April 2005 22:43 (twenty years ago)

If you're using IE it sometimes has issues with typing 'quick' versions of the site address, for example typing "google.com". Try typing the whole http://www.google.com
Doubt that'll help.

― Craig Gilchrist (Craig Gilchrist), Thursday, 7 April 2005 22:43 (twenty years ago)

Cache poisoning?

― Alex in TCBY (ex machina), Thursday, 7 April 2005 22:59 (twenty years ago)

sans.org won't come up either.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Thursday, 7 April 2005 23:24 (twenty years ago)

So I'm not the only one having this problem?

I was able to get Sans.org actually. Google comes up intermittently. Yahoo came up all fucked up and then I couldn't log in.

― Hurting (Hurting), Thursday, 7 April 2005 23:34 (twenty years ago)

The thing is, I'm not getting redirected to other sites as described in the cache poisoning thing.

― Hurting (Hurting), Thursday, 7 April 2005 23:37 (twenty years ago)

I don't know if it's connected, but my Spybot keeps bringing up something called "DSO Exploit" and every time I delete it it comes back.

― Hurting (Hurting), Thursday, 7 April 2005 23:40 (twenty years ago)

########################################################################
## What exactly is DNS cache poisoning?
########################################################################

Basically, it is method for an attacker to change the IP address that a
hostname resolves to. For instance the hostname www.cisco.com points to
the IP address 198.133.219.25. A DNS cache poisoning attack allows an
attacker to change the IP address for a host/domain and point it to a
different IP address.

― Alex in TCBY (ex machina), Thursday, 7 April 2005 23:41 (twenty years ago)

right, I wager that backbone providers are blocking traffic to the spoof sites

― Alex in TCBY (ex machina), Thursday, 7 April 2005 23:42 (twenty years ago)

So, like, what do I do?

― Hurting (Hurting), Thursday, 7 April 2005 23:45 (twenty years ago)

I had to go into my router and add static DNS servers (borrowed from my brother, I don't know if they're from his work ISP or home or how that works), which seems to make everything work.

I don't know how I could be infected, as I'm using a Mac through a Linksys router. Should I do a hard reset on the router, or is the problem mostly on the ISP (Comcast) end?

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Thursday, 7 April 2005 23:48 (twenty years ago)

The problem can propagate to you if your provider is vulnerable.

― Alex in TCBY (ex machina), Thursday, 7 April 2005 23:51 (twenty years ago)

http://www.securityfocus.com/guest/17905

― Alex in TCBY (ex machina), Thursday, 7 April 2005 23:54 (twenty years ago)

this just happened to me, several of my saint louis type sites (like archcitychronicle.com) are coming up with this source html:

[iframe src='http: //url-exchange.net' width=1 height=1][/iframe]
[iframe src='http: //toolbarpartner.com/in.php?wm=den' width=1 height=1][/iframe]

(subbed square brackets for pointy ones obv; I don't know what that second link does so I put a space in both)

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 00:47 (twenty years ago)

tell your ISP to stop using fucking Windows machines for DNS

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 13 April 2005 00:50 (twenty years ago)

Fuck, this finally explains the last week of my life! Thank you ILX tech support!

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 00:52 (twenty years ago)

Dude I fucking know! Luckily I know most of the people who run these sites, I'm gonna email them now and make sure they know what's what.

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 01:01 (twenty years ago)

ITS YOUR ISP NOT THE PROVIDER FOR THE SITES IN QUESTION

― Open your eyes; you can fly! (ex machina), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 01:03 (twenty years ago)

are all of us with sucky internet on comcast??

― ronny longjohns (ronny longjohns), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 01:06 (twenty years ago)

So this only affects one who has an upstream ISP using windoze boxen for DNS? I think in that case I'm fine. Most sensible ISPs use Unix of some flavour.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 01:08 (twenty years ago)

WE ARE ALL POXY FULES!
EVERYONE HAS THEIR PRICE!
WE ARE ALL POXY FULES!
EVERYONE HAS THEIR PRICE!
EVERYONE!

― Ian Riese-Moraine. To Hell with you and your gradual evolution! (Eastern Mantra), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 01:10 (twenty years ago)

Sorry, yes, I live in a city where SBC has a monopoly on high-speed in most areas, nearly everyone has the same provider/same problem, didn't mean to imply this was the fault of the sites/servers in question.

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 01:12 (twenty years ago)

The calprob output gives better results than BIND 8, however:

you lost me right there.

― kephm, Wednesday, 13 April 2005 01:13 (twenty years ago)

someone post ip address of another dns server which i can try, or email to ohronny at earthlink dot net

pretty please?

― ronny longjohns (ronny longjohns), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 01:19 (twenty years ago)

Dont DNS servers have access lists tho (and hence you cant use one not with your network)?

Or am I just thinking of SMTP servers?

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 01:25 (twenty years ago)

i don't know, but someone above mentioned using one off their brother or something...

― ronny longjohns (ronny longjohns), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 01:27 (twenty years ago)

I just switched from my wireless router to my landlady's, which seems to have cleared it up for now. Guess she doesn't have sucky comcast like me...

― the krza (krza), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 01:29 (twenty years ago)

So either there's no access list to the DNS I'm now using, or it thinks I'm her.

― the krza (krza), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 01:30 (twenty years ago)

Well if her router is using her DSL/cable, it would think it was her yes. Its the gateway connection to the'net that does the DNS, usually. I think. I could be talking out of my bum here, LANs arent really my thing.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 01:31 (twenty years ago)

Most sensible ISPs use Unix of some flavour.

Are there any sensible ISPs? I'm pretty sure mine (Verizon) wouldn't qualify.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 01:37 (twenty years ago)

In any case, the answer here is obviously to call up your ISP, so that they can identify if there is a problem on their end and help you on yours.

Guh.

― Girolamo Savonarola, Wednesday, 13 April 2005 01:37 (twenty years ago)

ha ha ha ha haa haa.... right.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 01:39 (twenty years ago)

others having trouble - look for ORSC public access DNS list - seems to work for me

― ronny longjohns (ronny longjohns), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 01:39 (twenty years ago)

Is it possible that things got screwed up at my ISP and they sort of fixed it but my router got hosed? And then I got a new router which works but something is still slightly screwy and intermittent at my ISP's end? Or do I have some kind of other crazy problem going on as well?

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 01:41 (twenty years ago)

The problem went away for a couple days, now I'm having trouble again -- internet is working in this stop-start kind of way.

― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 02:19 (twenty years ago)

this happened to me last year, I replaced my router and it stopped. try hooking your ethernet cord directly from the modem into your computer and see if it's better (this is assuming a lot about your setup).

― a banana (alanbanana), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 02:43 (twenty years ago)

Same here. Fuck a comcast.

― Tyrone Willie Demetrius DeAndre DeShawn (deangulberry), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 03:03 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, it's got to be Comcast, which is teh eating one dick.

― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 03:25 (twenty years ago)

HAHAHAHA! I have Comcast too and having so many problems tonight. Fuck a comcast INDEED.

― ---- (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 03:27 (twenty years ago)

Let's all fuck a comcast.

― Tyrone Willie Demetrius DeAndre DeShawn (deangulberry), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 03:29 (twenty years ago)

To be fair, Cablevision also munched the genitalia.

― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 03:30 (twenty years ago)

for real, check out some of these other dns servers homies

― ronny longjohns (ronny longjohns), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 04:01 (twenty years ago)

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