DDoS using port 0 and 53 (DNS)

Thu Jul 26 04:03:01 UTC 2012

On Jul 26, 2012, at 5:13 AM, Drew Weaver wrote:

> Another nice "emerging" tool [I say emerging because it's been around forever but nobody implements it] to deal with this is Flowspec, using flowspec you can instruct your Upstream to block traffic with much more granular characteristics.

flowspec is essentially S/RTBH with layer-4 granularity (it can do some other things, as well).  I certainly hope that vendors who've not yet implemented it will do so, it's a great tool, as you say.

Even customer-triggered S/RTBH is very useful, and some ISPs have implemented it for their customers.

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