[dns-operations] Limiting DNSSEC-based amplification attacks (Was: Weird TXT record

[Dobbins, Roland]

On Jun 25, 2011, at 12:26 AM, John Kristoff wrote:

> In my experience, that is only the attack profile I've seen too, but I don't think we can count on miscreants to conform to past profiles.


This is generally true of queries intended to elicit a DNS reflection/amplification attack, sure - it's generally a specific /32 that's being targeted by a given attack (not always, but generally speaking).


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