[dns-operations] First experiments with DNS dampening to fight amplification attacks

Ralph Babel rbabel at babylon.pfm-mainz.de
Thu Oct 4 12:12:00 UTC 2012


Jim Reid wrote:

> Besides, a genuine resolver will also have
> a non rate-limiting server to query unless all
> the name servers for some domain are under attack.

... which seems to be the case, at least for the
name servers I have access to: all servers for a
particular domain are attacked concurrently. New name
servers won't be picked up by the attacker(s) in real
time, but eventually, they do get added to their list.



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