This is not even my field of expertise (not that I have any to begin with), but just knowing the past history of SOH being hacked and the damage that has done, I'm guessing this is a very elaborate "Strainer" if you will. . . .A way to run everything that happens on SOH through a fail-safe to guard against hackers, especially since Malwarebytes is a major anti-virus/malware detection software. Just my guess though.
However, after reading Gigs explanation, I would have to say, that I don't know what I'm talking about, so disregard anything I may have said that made me look less than intelligent, lol.
falcon409, you are not alone in level of understanding of DNS it is a fairly complex system, I am far from an expert but I do have a working knowledge, so while I am sitting here waiting on my RAID array to rebuild here is a quick & dirty on DNS if you are interested?
DNS stands for "Domain Name System" the simplest way to think of it is a massive phone book for the internet, as most of us know computers loves numbers and all devices on the internet or any network need to have a unique identifier, as in IP Address, this is great for computers but for use lowly humans we like names and letters, so we use things like
www.sim-outhouse.com to get to our favorite website. Now the Domain name system is just one great big registry that keeps track of what unique IP address belongs to which domain (as in ours sim-outhouse.com) so when you type the name in the address bar of your browser the DNS server you are using looks it up and converts it to the right IP address for our computer and off you go to your favorite Flight Sim site in the whole wide world. That is the simplistic explanation I tell my users at work and I generally use sim-outhouse.com in my example, of course they all say I spend more time on sites like "boobiesRUs.com" but I have never been there I swear.
The thing about DNS is it has to be distributed and every ISP needs a DNS server to provide users a starting point, can you imagine if all domain name requests went through one server... now all of the ISP servers request updates from teh Domain Name registers on a regular basis from higher level DNS servers but there can be times when a site moves or a single DNS server is out of sync that web page requests are not directed properly so you enter
www.sim-outhouse.com and the DNS is out of sync you get the wrong IP and end up at some obscure DIY Septic tank installation site... It does not happen often but it can, and DNS servers can be attacked by hackers the same as any other system, although that is becomming rare now due to the nature of their security and the fact that they are not easily accessible to the public. There were some big DNS hacks in the 90's when hackers had easier access so they would redirect any request from a legit site to whatever IP they wanted and you wound up on a porno site when trying to get your bank, but that has not happened in quite some time.
and that's all I got to say about that...
