On 10 Mar 2005, at 03:08, Joel wrote:
I just tried to access bugzilla.redhat.com on a MSWxp box (Firefox) and got a certificate dialog. (You know, "This certificate does not appear to be valid. Etc." which is really poor wording, anyway.)
I panicked and cancelled (good) without looking at the certificate first (bad). Shut down Firefox. Went to my FC box and tried from there. Access completed as it has in the past, redirecting me successfully to https without any certificate dialog. So I tried again from the MSWxp box and this time there was no certificate dialog. It connected me via ssl the way it usually does.
There was a lot of news yesterday about dns poisoning.
Anyone else seen something like this?
No.
from what I've been reading in E-week the last few weeks the sheer level of spam and especially phishing thats going on over the Internet, it is placing an inordinate amount of stress on existing DNS services around the internet. The biggest contributing factor to this added load is the fact that the majority of Mail servers are doing reverse DNS lookups on messages coming in - many are failing which causes the mail service to repeat the attempt until it reaches its break-point where it won't try any more for that domain.
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