[dns-operations] Weird TXT record

[Dobbins, Roland]

On Jun 19, 2011, at 10:17 PM, Geoffrey Sisson wrote:

> 
> There was a rash of DNS reflector attacks in 2006 that used similar
> TXT records.


This technique is quite popular today - the largest DDoS attacks we see are DNS reflection/amplification attacks, and DNSSEC deployment has made it far easier to elicit a large answer for the amplification part.

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