d6991.com traffic

Dobbins, Roland rdobbins at arbor.net
Mon Sep 23 17:25:02 UTC 2013


On Sep 24, 2013, at 12:11 AM, Chris Hunt wrote:

> That is a problem, but I'm seeing a lot of queries from residential users for what seems to me an obscure name hostied in Asia.  I'm
> guessing some kind of bot traffic...

They may be open recursors being leveraged for DNS reflection/amplification DDoS (many CPE devices are broken this way).  Check some of the CPEs to see if they're open recursors:

<http://openresolverproject.org/>

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