Re: DDos counter measures

[Charles Ballowe <hangman () steelballs org>]

Microsoft could solve lots of problems -- just have their name servers
return 216.250.140.112 for those names. ;)

(hint: point a browser at that IP, the reverse tables for it don't give
you a useful name...)

On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 08:12:37PM -0500, Gael Martinez wrote:
> Try some other tests using no A record for windowsupdate.com in your local zone,
> you will notice that the damages are even smaller doing that instead of localhost (127.0.0.1).
>
> Gael
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 08:04:54PM +0200, Laurent LEVIER wrote:
> > All,
> >
> > Since our IntraNet solves all its DNS queries through internal caches 
> > (mandatory bottleneck), we created windowsupdate.com & 
> > windowsupdate.microsoft.com zones in this bottleneck DNS. These are 
> > resolving to 127.0.0.1 with DNS wildcards.
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