Wonder who has the hot pager tonight. I'm sure glad it isn't me. Not certain if it's an internet-wide attack, or just on my DNS service providor, but most of my internet domain names have been hijacked and redirected to an advertising link farm. My mail is being sent somewhere else also. I sure hope it's an isolated attack or better yet an isolated bug, because if somebody can intentionally mess up DNS this badly we're in big , big trouble.

Hmmm. Can it be done? In fact I suppose it can be. It's a distributed system with no central authority. Anybody can claim to have the definitive web address for 'macgirvin.com'. And some percentage of those asking for it are going to accept this new source as genuine. Replace 'macgirvin.com' with 'google.com' and you'll see why I'm concerned.  A lot of effort has gone into protecting domain names from getting stolen, but I'll have to review my DNS fundamentals because I don't think there is anything preventing them from being redirected.