Tim Long

Forever in Electric Dreams
The life and times of a Small Business Server MVP and all-round technology enthusiast. Tim is founder of TiGra Networks, a company based in South Wales UK specialising in small business IT. This blog is aimed at Microsoft Small Business Specialists, IT professionals, Astronomers and anyone interested in science and technology.

Is Your ISP patched?

image Is your ISP patched against the DNS cache poisoning (US CERT advisory) exploit? There are confirmed attacks in the wild. My ISP is patched. I asked them, and actually got an intelligent response. They escalated my ticket and a day later came the response:

“Thank you for contacting us And again thanks for the posted information , can assure you that all the necessary security measurements from our side are taken i order to prevent this "DNS Cache Poisining" ,there is nothing that you should worry about ,once again I thank you for your advise.”

These people (Be Unlimited, www.bethere.co.uk, a subsidiary of O2) actually seem to know what they are doing, even if the Bulgarian call-centre staff are a bit shaky on English grammar.

If your ISP isn’t patched, or you can’t get a sensible reply out of them, see the SBS Diva for a mitigation.