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ZombieBots Part 2 or…

Sharknado! sharknado

Equally exciting, terrifying, low-budget and prone to sequels.

So bad it’s good movie lovers, click the link above and see if you can survive that whirlwind of bites.

Server admins, stay right here and get ready for DNS-Zombie-Bots Two: More Tech-Talk and .configs Than You Can Stand!  (Or, “Bored To Death!” Or, “You can have the whole seat, but you only need the edge!”) Continue reading

Killin’ Zombie Bots DNS Style

The fun post title is the only thing fun about this. Unless you are in hosting, server admin, or run your own DNS servers this is going to be complicated, technical and boring.

First [is first ~LK]: an apology to any “upstream” DNS servers that our pet zombie bots may have passed bad requests to.  Like us, you probably didn’t know it was happening.

“What’s happening?!”
~ Dana (Dominique Dunne, Poltergeist, 1982)

Thousands Hundreds of thousands Millions Hundreds of millions of bad DNS requests.
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