Re: Connectivity problems with the US Army

[Cal Frye <cjf () CALFRYE COM>]

Brock, Anthony - NET wrote:
> Oregon State University recently noticed that we were being blocked from
> accessing all army.mil domains and resources. The block includes access
> to their DNS and email servers. We have since learned that this block
> was implemented as a result of probes from machines compromised as a
> result of the Symantec vulnerability. While we had hoped that the
> situation would correct itself, we've since learned that this may not
> happen.

Bummer. This must put a bit of a crimp in their recruiting system ;-)

Unfortunately, Oberlin seems to be unaffected by such a block; I can see
www.army.mil just fine. Dig also works.

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-- Cal Frye, Network Administrator, Oberlin College
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