Re: [dns-operations] Effectivity of filter lists against DNS amplification attacks

2012-08-17 Thread David Miller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 8/17/2012 6:22 AM, Daniel Stirnimann wrote: > Hi Klaus > > On one of our name server which is secondary for a little over one > thousand second level domains has been abused for DNS > Amplification Attacks since November 2011. > > There has not b

Re: [dns-operations] Effectivity of filter lists against DNS amplification attacks

2012-08-17 Thread Paul Vixie
On 8/17/2012 8:03 AM, Klaus Darilion wrote: > Lately, there was much discussion and examples on how to block the DNS > requests of DNS Amplification Attacks. Such filters prevent the name > server seeing the request, thus of course massively reducing the > outgoing traffic. But such filters can not

Re: [dns-operations] SUMMARY: Name server turning off RD bit in response - just curious

2012-08-17 Thread Peter Koch
On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 01:11:09PM +0200, Faasen, Craig wrote: > Thanks to everyone who responded to the question: "any idea why a name server > would want to change the RD bit ?" > > Consensus is that there is no particular reason and that clients should not > care about the RD bit in responses

[dns-operations] SUMMARY: Name server turning off RD bit in response - just curious

2012-08-17 Thread Faasen, Craig
Thanks to everyone who responded to the question: "any idea why a name server would want to change the RD bit ?" Consensus is that there is no particular reason and that clients should not care about the RD bit in responses. Best regards, -- craig __

Re: [dns-operations] Effectivity of filter lists against DNS amplification attacks

2012-08-17 Thread Daniel Stirnimann
Hi Klaus On one of our name server which is secondary for a little over one thousand second level domains has been abused for DNS Amplification Attacks since November 2011. There has not been a single week without such traffic. So, it is not decreasing at all. Since May 2012 we are rate-limiting

[dns-operations] Effectivity of filter lists against DNS amplification attacks

2012-08-17 Thread Klaus Darilion
Hi! Lately, there was much discussion and examples on how to block the DNS requests of DNS Amplification Attacks. Such filters prevent the name server seeing the request, thus of course massively reducing the outgoing traffic. But such filters can not reduce the incoming traffic - the attacke