Open Resolver Problems

Mon Mar 25 18:09:15 UTC 2013

On 25/03/2013 17:51, William Herrin wrote:
> Hassling the folks who run open resolvers further victimizes the
> innocent.

running open resolvers will continue to be a major problem as a DDoS
platform on the Internet until everyone implements BCP38.  When everyone
has implemented ingress filtering, we can have a beer and agree that
running open resolvers is less harmful.  Until then, though, they're a menace.

Nick