Hello, On Sat, 12 Apr 2014, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2014-04-11 20:01, David Haller wrote:
Yes. It smells very fishy to me.
What if the DHCP server is not the router, but a compromised windows machine?
I've had no reason to suspect that that's the case at Brouerius from what I'd read here over the last years (and could recall ;) Read it as "compromised DHCP server", be it the router or whatnot. Anyway, that DNS-Server change, the more I think about it, the more it stinks. Actually, I think it's reinstall time and restore the data from scratch.
Or some security practice, like parental control of some kind... often the DNS is changed.
But not to a obviously overtaxed dedicated server at some random hosting-provider in the US. Or, if so, that "parental control" stinks and likely is a trojan or something rather similar. Come to think of it, that that pseudo-"DNS" is overtaxed might be due to a connection with attacks on XP Boxen fresh out of updates ... There were speculations bad guys held back exploits ... BTW: I do not use DHCP *PERIOD*[1] on static hosts. $ rpm -qa '*dhcp*' $ Yes, I broke those packages that claimed they need dhcpdc. Fuck'em. I don't use those anyway. ifconfig / ip work just fine without. No adverse effects[2]. I actually use my own scripts instead of ifup/ifdown, with static IPs (from a subset the router does not use for dhcp), but the ifup/ifdown with static IPs should work just fine as well. Not sure about what systemd breaks there though. That %$*@! seems to follow the Pinky & the Brain Motto (see non random sig)... -dnh [1] which reminds me to check that at my mom's who's using a stationary PC. For Laptops, it's more difficult. Personally I'd probably use also custom scripts, calling dhcpdc "manually" and using static (i.e. non dhcp-provided DNS-servers. And not those of google). Am I paranoid? Dunno. I think the question is if I'm paranoid enough??!? [2] except that if I do a 'zypper dup' I have to re-break those deps which tends to get tedious if you break and taboo as much as I do: $ zypper ll | wc -l 3755 -- Pinky: Gee, Brain, what do you want to do tonight? Brain: The same thing we do every night, Pinky - try to take over the world! -- sig courtesy of http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Pinky_and_the_Brain -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org