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Internet & Networking => Networking => Topic started by: rjbinney on March 30, 2013, 11:32:58 AM

Title: Open Resolvers - Anything to Worry About
Post by: rjbinney on March 30, 2013, 11:32:58 AM

According to this New York Times article (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/30/technology/devices-like-cable-boxes-figured-in-internet-attack.html?ref=global), it seems every man, woman, and child in the world is aiding and abetting the enemy.

OK, maybe that's hyperbolic.

But for those of us running wireless routers, networked Blu-Ray players, running from Starbucks' Wi-Fi to a hotel room to the office... What should we be worried about, and what can be done?

Title: Re: Open Resolvers - Anything to Worry About
Post by: Salmon Trout on March 30, 2013, 12:40:53 PM

Check with one of these (For the first you need to know the external IP address by which your router etc is seen on the external Internet)

http://dns.measurement-factory.com/cgi-bin/openresolvercheck.pl

This one finds and shows your IP address

http://www.thinkbroadband.com/tools/dnscheck.html