Lizard Stresser Runs on Hacked Home Routers

Re:Lizard Stresser Runs on Hacked Home Routers by drzaiusapelord on Friday January 09, 2015 @10:59AM (#8862742)

>consider changing the router’s default DNS servers to those maintained by OpenDNS.

Is openDNS a sponsor for Krebs? This seems like a great way to break CDN geo-ip, get served ads, and get non-standard "typo domain" messages. Ironically, it opens people up to DDOS as a attack against openDNS means Kreb's readers now don't have dns.

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Re:Lizard Stresser Runs on Hacked Home Routers by pavel_lishin on Friday January 09, 2015 @12:29PM (#8863194)

> This seems like a great way to break CDN geo-ip, get served ads, and get non-standard "typo domain" messages.

A lot of ISPs do (or try to, before backpedaling quickly) the same things. I've settled for using Google's DNS servers.

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Re:Lizard Stresser Runs on Hacked Home Routers by tty7 on Friday January 09, 2015 @11:04AM (#8862755)

https://www.opendns.com/no-more-ads/

the OpenDNS 'guide' is meant to be removed.

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Re:Lizard Stresser Runs on Hacked Home Routers by driverdan on Friday January 09, 2015 @01:16PM (#8863457)

ISP DNS servers tend to be terrible. OpenDNS and Google DNS tend to be much faster than ISPs.

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Re:Lizard Stresser Runs on Hacked Home Routers by mahouse on Friday January 09, 2015 @01:31PM (#8863547)

Not really. Some (most?) ISPs have servers in their own networks that can speed up the loading of, for example, YouTube videos. By not using your ISP's DNS servers, you will miss them.

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Re:Lizard Stresser Runs on Hacked Home Routers by ericd on Friday January 09, 2015 @02:04PM (#8863746)

Ironically, the most common fix for slow choppy youtube videos is to swap out your ISP's DNS.

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Re:Lizard Stresser Runs on Hacked Home Routers by rudolf0 on Friday January 09, 2015 @04:08PM (#8864528)

This used to be true, especially with Comcast, but I read a blog post about a year ago stating that in most cases using Comcast's DNS servers is actually faster nowadays.

I closely benchmarked it and they turned out to be right, though 8.8.8.8 had only a little bit more latency. And it makes sense; your ISP will always (theoretically) be able to provide lower latency than Google can when they put the effort into it. Unless Google is your ISP. :)

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Re:Lizard Stresser Runs on Hacked Home Routers by SL61 on Saturday January 10, 2015 @02:02AM (#8866196)

Google has a tool that will find the fastest DNS server for you, and check for censorship (though IIRC I found that part rather ambiguous). In my case my ISP's was faster by about 30%.

https://code.google.com/p/namebench/

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Re:Lizard Stresser Runs on Hacked Home Routers by drzaiusapelord on Friday January 09, 2015 @02:30PM (#8863941)

Never had an issue. I've run benchmarks against mine and then google's and didn't see any noticeable difference. Google only seems to offer me what I assume are massive privacy violations for using their service.

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