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RE: recursive DNS servers DDoS as a growing DDoS problem


From: "Geo." <geoincidents () nls net>
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 13:27:20 -0500


What is stopping you from running your own local DNS server?

What is stopping you from running your own SMTP server? A port 25 block?
Well if an ISP doesn't want to play whack-a-mole with unsecured dns servers
popping up every day do you not think it likely that they will resort to the
same techniques they used for smtp?

Granted a port 53 inbound block would make more sense for the current
example but just like bots started running their own SMTP engines I see the
dns flood model changing to fit the new landscape.

Geo.


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