Jim Reid <j...@rfc1035.com> wrote:
>
> I posted here to see if anyone else is experiencing this behaviour or can
> identify the root cause. DDoS attacks against "important" name servers are
> fairly common. Could the bad guys now be picking easier targets that may be
> more likely to fall over? And why pick on my name server which has never done
> anyone any harm?

We've been getting 1000-3000 queries per second for cam.ac.uk for at least
the last ten days or so. We have deployed DNSSEC so the responses are
fairly chunky 2KB fragmented UDP packets.

Tony.
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