DNS spamming?

[compilerbitch]

I have Bulldog 8MBit broadband at home. Every so often, usually late at night, the DNS servers respond by pointing every request (regardless of DNS name) to bargain-flights.gb.net. WTF?

I can't find anything online about this. Tellingly, the web site has no facility that allows email to be sent, nor does it give any actual real-world contact information (phone numbers/address/etc.). However, whois is my friend:

whois bargain-flights.gb.net
Domain Name: bargain-flights.gb.net

Registrant: Portal Team

Administrative, Technical, and Billing Contact:
Sivananda Ganesamoorthy (H122681) siva@gnsiva.org
GNSiva.org
64-66 Coleman Street
London
EC2R 5BX
UK
Tel. +44.2081040467

Record created on: 20 January 2005
Record expires on: 31 December 2006
Status: Live

Domain servers in listed order:

NS0.CENTRALNIC.NET 213.146.149.169
NS1.CENTRALNIC.NET 213.146.149.134

Has anyone else seen this? I am pretty furious at the moment, because I'm trying to sort stuff out for my talk in Birmingham tomorrow and all I can get is this piece of crap spam site. Grr².

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I used to work for Bulldog and their DNS servers are always having problems and always have. Seriously, I've worked for other ISPs and I currently work for a large service provider and I've never seen anything like it! DNS servers are not difficult to run. I used to use other ISP's DNS servers on my Bulldog line.

[andrewwyld.livejournal.com]

We also have Bulldog and I haven't seen anything like this.  I have seen the DNS randomly disappear for a short time, though ... could be the same disease with different symptoms.

[captain-aj.livejournal.com]

Hmm, my first thought on this was that somebody's poisoning Bulldog's DNS server (horrifying that it's still possible in this day and age). Is there any common pattern to the names it's overriding (like they're all .com )?

[mair_in_grenderich]

I used to use the cam DNS, but it seems they no longer work from "anywhere". Surely there are some random DNS servers you can use though?