DNS Amplification Attacks

Fri Mar 24 20:45:53 UTC 2006

On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 09:35:34AM +0000, Michael.Dillon at btradianz.com wrote:
> > > DNS looking glasses, in much the same way that we use web-form based
> > > BGP or traceroute looking glasses today.
> > 
> > Open resolvers are far better then looking glasses to assess the state
> > of DNS, and we are campaigning against them.  You can't have it both
> > ways. 8-(
> 
> What is the definition of "DNS Looking Glass"?
> If it is a PERL CGI script then I would agree with you.
> If it is a DNS proxy that applies rate limiting
> and damping then I disagree with you. 

I believe he's talking about things like the Looking Glass Web sites.
The one I wrote was a simple hardened shell script that called local
resources to do its thing.

-- 
Joe Yao
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