Re: [Full-Disclosure] Blaster Side Affect?

["Richard Spiers" <dksaarth@unix.za.net>]

Yeah, can't give details because i'll only be able to look at the machine
sometime next week, but I've had a friend phone me and complain that his
windows 2000 server is now having trouble with DNS names.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "henry j. mason" <hmason@dbsinet.com>
To: <full-disclosure@lists.netsys.com>
Sent: Monday, August 18, 2003 3:22 PM
Subject: Re: [Full-Disclosure] Blaster Side Affect?


> about 1.5 weeks before the worm appeared, my windows 2000
> machine stopped resolving DNS names. a reboot would solve
> the problem, then after an hour it would stop working again.
> networking was fine otherwise - resolving hosts via the
> hosts file worked and you could reach machines by numeric
> ip address. restarting the DNS client service did nothing.
> in fact, i never found a solution, and ended up installing
> windows on new hardware and moving my files over.
>
> what a waste of time.
>
> i have no idea if this is related to the worm or just a bug
> in windows (god forbid). but since your symptoms appear to
> be similar i thought i would mention it.
>
> if this is your problem, and you find a fix, i'd really like
> to know about it...
>
> regards,
> henry
>
>
> Adam wrote:
>
> > My apologies if this is a stupid question.  I haven't seen this
mentioned on
> > the list yet and I haven't heard about until today when some customers
> > called. It seems that after they get the worm ( which I have been
telling
> > the to update since July...go figure ) and remove it. They can no longer
get
> > to any websites.  Checked all the settings and they are good. They can
ping
> > outside there network and get email through outlook. Just can't browse
any
> > websites?  Anyone heard of this or why it is happening?  Or how to fix
it.
> > Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> >
> >
> > Adam Richards
> >
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