DNS Abuse

[John Coutts]

Is anyone else having problems with their DNS server being bombarded with 
requests from customers that are obviously have a system related problem. These 
problems appear to be related to automated background requests for places like 
ICQ, Yahoo, MSN, and AOL. Even though the DNS responds, the customer's computer 
still outputs more than 25 requests per second. Our server is able to handle 
it, but it is causing excessive load and bandwidth consumption.

J.A. Coutts
Systems Engineer
Edsonet/TravPro