Tightened DNS security question re: DNS amplification attacks.

Suresh Ramasubramanian ops.lists at gmail.com
Wed Jan 28 15:29:44 UTC 2009


This, in a thread where paul vixie is posting .. and on a list where
there are several people who do run professional blocklists.

Well, I dare say there'll be some difference of opinion. Cant help that.

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 8:48 PM, aljuhani <info at linuxmount.com> wrote:
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> Well the RBLs, in using dns queries, is another form of legal DDoS attacks, mainly when the suddenly cease to respond or re-configure to black-list the entire wold.   One should just imagine the bandwidth consumption during a given time-frame, RBLs consume as oppose to volume of spam messages.
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