StupidScript - 11:16 pm on Mar 24, 2006 (gmt 0)

My dedicated hosting provider wrote to say "don't worry about it" after I alerted them to the "open" state of their DNS.

I wrote back saying, "I'm not worried about it, personally, but maybe your engineers should take a look at.." the article engine linked to.

It's not too much of a problem for the individuals served by the DNS unless (a) the cache is poisoned against their IP, (b) the DNS becomes too busy redirecting bogus requests to serve normally or (c) the DNS gets blacklisted as a result of being abused.

In any of those scenarios, it's a pretty big problem for the individuals.