[ale] AOL, DNS poisoning and spam

[Alexander Barton]

Alexander Barton wrote:
> Michael H. Warfield wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 16:21 -0400, James P. Kinney III wrote:
>>
>>> I just read the DNS poisoning notice from /.  I went to www.aol.com and
>>> noticed the site was taking forever to load as the url bar at the bottom
>>> of firefox kept saying waiting on http300.content.edge.ru4.com 
> 
> [...]
> 
>>     So...  Run the command "dig www.aol.com" and tell us what you get.
>> Also, what is in your "/etc/resolve.conf" file?  I'll pass the
>> information on to the security community.
> 
> 
> Me too.  Here's the details:

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Okay, so it looks like the AOL page is legitimate, even if it did take a 
looong time to load.  I buy the story about http300.content.edge.ru4.com 
being a ad server.  Sorry for the noise.

-Alexander