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Re: odd behavior from cygwin.com



 Black hats have been poisoning comcast dns servers for years.  Seriously... 



On 6/26/08, Matthew Gillen <[hidden email]> wrote: 
> Stephen Adler wrote: 
>> [adler@basement00 ~]$ nslookup cygwin.com 
>> ;; reply from unexpected source: 68.87.71.226#53, expected 68.87.73.242#53 
> 
> Incidentally, both those IP addresses are what I have as Comcast's DNS 
> entries 
> for DHCP clients.  It might be that one was really slow to respond 
> (.73.242), 
> and your machine re-issued the request to the next guy (.71.226), and 
> finally 
> got a response from the first one. 
> 
> Does it happen repeatedly?  Or was it a one-time thing? 
> 
> Matt 
> 
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