My FC3 machine appears to be compromised, please help

[T. Horsnell]

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>Bob Brennan wrote:
>> I am of course open to suggestions but am at the moment waiting for
>> Demon to correct the hacked entries on their nameservers, if that
>> doesn't work - I'll be back for more help!
>
>This issue is probably only affecting Demon's customers at the moment 
>(assuming the same problem has not manifested itself on other providers' 
>nameservers).
>
>The main issue for you is that your own server is rewriting addresses 
>due to the bogus CNAME records. You can avoid this easily by installing 
>a caching nameserver on your own mail server. This will insulate you 
>from your ISP's DNS issues and may actually result in improved 
>performance for your mail server overall. This could be as simple as:
>
>yum install caching-nameserver
>chkconfig named on
>service named start
>
>Then edit /etc/resolv.conf, remove the existing nameserver entries and 
>add a "nameserver 127.0.0.1" entry. Your system should then be doing its 
>own DNS lookups and shouldn't see the bogus CNAME records.
>
>You may need to add PEERDNS=no to /etc/sysconfig/network to prevent your 
>/etc/resolv.conf getting clobbered by a DHCP client.
>

Couldnt similar be achieved by making temporary entries in /etc/hosts
without having to install anything?

Trry.

>  Paul.
>
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