(Accidentally off list, sorry)

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> From: Dominic Benson <domi...@lenny.cus.org>
> Date: 15 July 2014 22:59:14 BST
> To: Quanah Gibson-Mount <qua...@zimbra.com>
> Subject: Re: Dealing with a bad network device affecting DNS lookups
> 
> 
>> On 15 Jul 2014, at 22:46, Quanah Gibson-Mount <qua...@zimbra.com> wrote:
>> 
>> --On Tuesday, July 15, 2014 3:41 PM -0700 John Hardin <jhar...@impsec.org> 
>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> What does RackSpace IT say when you complain to them about this
>>> misbehavior?
>> 
>> I've been complaining about it since last October.  Supposedly it will be 
>> fixed by the end of this month.  In the meantime, I still have floods of 
>> spam coming in that I'd like scored correctly.
>> 
>> --Quanah
> 
> The only way around I can suggest would be to create a [VPN] tunnel out to a 
> system on another network, and use it as a forwarder for your nameserver. 
> That would stop it from being intercepted. Forwarding to a nameserver on a 
> different network using a different port might also work.
> 
> You would need to have control over something on a network that behaves, 
> though.
> 
> (Is intercepting DNS a standard Rackspace thing, or is there some 
> service/option/circumstance that causes you to be affected?)
> 
> Dominic

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