On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 9:16 PM, Kameron Gasso <kgasso-li...@visp.net> wrote:
> We're also seeing a great number of these, but the idiots spoofing the > queries are hitting several non-recursive nameservers we host - and only > generating 59-byte "REFUSED" replies. > > Looks like they probably just grabbed a bunch of DNS hosts out of WHOIS > and hoped that they were recursive resolvers. a point to bear in mind here is that... 'its working' is good enough for the bad folks :( no need to optimize when this works. Also, it's likely this isn't all of the problem the spoofed requestors are seeing these past few days :( -Chris