DNS Vulnerability in the Wild
The much-feared DNS vulnerabilities found by Dan Kaminsky seem to be being exploited already. If you are concerned about whether the DNS servers you are using are fixed or not, you can check this at Dan's web site by going here and using the widget on the site to check your ISP's DNS servers. I know mine are okay because they're my own servers .
DNS Vulnerabilities
There's been quite a lot of coverage about the recently discovered vulnerabilities in the DNS protocol. We thought we'd mention that we patched for those vulnerabilities within 24 hours after repaired binaries were released by the vendors, and we also made some changes to our DNS server configuration to make the servers less vulnerable.
We do this sort of thing all the time, and it's one of the reasons that our web hosting is a little more expensive than some others - that is, we're actually paying attention.
