A hacker today redirected web surfers looking for Yahoo, Microsoft or Google to a page showing a TV test card by apparently poisoning Google's public DNS system. Punters and organisations relying on Google's free service were affected, rather than the websites themselves being compromised. Visitors to yahoo.ro, microsoft.ro …

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Wednesday 28th November 2012 16:15 GMT Zaphod.Beeblebrox

Google's free DNS service

Does anyone actually use it? Really? Given how they slurp data using every other service they offer, I'd have thought nobody would trust them with their DNS but perhaps I'm wrong.

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1. Wednesday 28th November 2012 16:31 GMT TRT
  
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  used it a few times to diagnose local DNS caching issues...
  
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  1. Wednesday 28th November 2012 18:19 GMT Charles 9
    
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    And I have to use it every so often when the local DNS doesn't update often enough and some lesser-known websites I frequent "drop out" as a result.
    
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2. Thursday 29th November 2012 00:41 GMT PyLETS
  
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  Used it temporarily and experimentally because it's IPV6 accessible at 2001:4860:4860::8888 and at 2001:4860:4860::8844 . So it enables a IPV6 only machine to resolve IPV6 only servers.
  
  Probably more secure to setup and use your own DNS resolver, but it's another service to operate and maintain.
  
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3. Thursday 29th November 2012 03:03 GMT Goat Jam
  
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  I use it because my ISP does that stupid DNS hi-jacking nonsense, as does so-called "opendns".
  
  Considering that I also browse while logged in with a google id I'm struggling to see how using their dns server allows them to intrude on my privacy any more than they already do.
  
  If you can enlighten me than that would be great.
  
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Wednesday 28th November 2012 16:16 GMT Anonymous Coward

Thanks

Thanks for that last line of the article.

R. C. Jones

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Wednesday 28th November 2012 16:27 GMT TeeCee

Pakistan.

So the previous Pakistani problem was that someone pissed on their PKNIC?

Made my day.......

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Wednesday 28th November 2012 19:06 GMT Anonymous Coward

Nice one.

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Wednesday 28th November 2012 19:11 GMT Paul Renault

DNS servers filled with Kool-Aid?

Weren't they supposed to use Fluorinert?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray-2

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1. Thursday 29th November 2012 17:59 GMT Charles 9
  
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  Wasn't that stuff phased out because it was a fluorocarbon (aka an Ozone eater)?
  
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