OpenDNS – Paul's Tech Talk

So I woke up today checking out my sites, and looking outside. So As I was checking my Stats for my blog. I cam across a referring site that brought Supposedly Two people to my site. I looked at the URL for the site:

http://trojan.fiftystatesclassifiedads.com/index.php

[ad#ad2-right]So after seeing the “trojan” Prefix and I am wondering if this was an attempt by Malware to infect my domain. So I go check this domain out. I got to it and I get a 404. I then do a Cache Check with OPENDNS. I also Then decided to see if it was even Registered domain by the doing a Whois. So I am opening this up to people who might know. I did do some research and here’s wha I’ve found out so far.

According to How2hack, they talk about how people want privacy and that it might be someone who does not want to be found. I tend to agree with them, Privacy for Privacy sake is good but if you want to be private you would you even be checking out websites knowing people will want to find out who really is coming to your site. The How2Hack site also talks about how this might happen and I see where they are coming from.

This was the only site I could find that even looked like it was relevant to what I was searching for. I don’t see how someone can come to my site saying they were referred by another site and that site does not exist? Anyone want to try to answer this question and give insight as to why this would happen?

Late the week, I’ve had some concern with the DNS flaws with my ISP. So I’ve change to another DNS. So I went and did a test at:

Doxpara

So what does this mean when it says I might be at risk?

Very simple, your DNS provider is not randomizing the ports. I’ll get to that in a bit.

What is DNS?

The DNS is like a big Phonebook to where you tell it who you want to call, in this case go, and it finds the numbers and takes you there. It’s like telling a cab driver where you want to visit, just like telling the cab driver to come to my site. When you enter http://www.paulstechtalk.com into your browser, your telling DNS to go fetch the ip and direct your connection to this site.

So how can I fix this flaw?

Simple, You will need to direct yourself to OpenDNS. Has Fixed the flaw to help protect you. How do you use it? You will tell your system to direct all the DNS queries through that then your ISP DNS.

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So by using the openDNS, you will be bypassing the DNS flaws that you might of have. If you want to use that DNS server go to there website and it tells you step by step on how to do it with your own system.

The Nice thing about OpenDNS is they have so many features, You can prevent phishing, adult sites, Domain blocking, and much more. If you use this, you can prevent you kids from getting on the sites that you don’t want them to get on. It lets you have control over what you want to do. I recommend people to use OpenDNS.

What’s the DNS flaw?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS_cache_poisoning

I can’t explain it but maybe this can. If you want to diqus this in the community you can go to:

Technology Community Page

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