[YLUG] DNS vulnerability - your ISP

Nicholas Thomas nick at lupine.me.uk
Sat Aug 2 22:10:31 UTC 2008


Gaffer. wrote:
> Hi Matthew,
>
> On Friday 01 August 2008 10:01, Matthew Gates wrote:
>   
>> I've been using openDNS for a little while now.  They check out
>> just fine according to the site Mike posted (GREAT randomness for
>> both source ports and transaction ports).
>>
>> I was curious about the ones which BT provide via their broadband
>> deal, so I told my router to use them and then took the test. 
>> Source ports were "POOR", although transactions ports were "GREAT".
>>
>> I switched back to openDNS.  :-)
>>
>> Has anyone else done this for the DNS servers which are provided by
>> their ISP?  I'd be curious about the results.
>>
>> Matthew
>>     
>
> TalkTalk = Great & Great !   :-)
>
> Thanks to Mike for the pointer.
>
>   
Virgin: Great/Great or Poor/Great, depending on server.  At least
they're working on it..!

/Nick



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