RE: [cobalt-users] [RaQ3] A tale about an OS update, bind and a worm

[Web Host Supply Sales <sales@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>Here's a lesson for ya'all:
>
>Just before hitting bed late yesterday I decided to check on an email from
>my co-lo tech. In addition to the answer I was expecting, he was noting
>that some other users on the LAN had been complaining that my server was
>generating unwanted DNS traffic and that logs were showing that it was is
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>The culprit was a bind worm, which was kind of weird as I had secured
>myself against the bind exploit long time ago. Reading the profile above, I
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Another good reason not to run DNS on your webserver.... nevertheless, just
makes ya fightin mad doesn't it?

Brad