Malicious DNS request?
Brad Knowles
brad at stop.mail-abuse.org
Thu May 12 14:43:07 UTC 2005
At 12:41 PM +0400 2005-05-12, Gadi Evron quoted Joe Shen:
>> How could such request be filtered or minimize its
>> affaction on DNS server?
>
> Either this is a DDoS (woohoo!! I used the forbidden word) or you are
> seeing a botnet trying to connect and putting in some smoke-screen while
> at it to try and poison dns-top.
>
> I'd suggest dropping requests for domains you don't hold.
That's kind of hard to do if you're running a recursive/caching nameserver.
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