[dns-operations] DNSimple under attack?

[Keith Mitchell]

On 12/11/2014 05:52 PM, Livingood, Jason wrote:

>> On 12/10/14, 8:27 PM, "Dnsbed (Jeff)" <support at dnsbed.com> wrote:
> 
>> UDB is hard to be defensed, as the spooled IPs are hard to setup
>> the correct firewall rules. Can we guess the next generation of DNS
>> will service primarily using TCP?

We've been here before:

https://lists.dns-oarc.net/pipermail/dns-operations/2013-March/009981.html

https://lists.dns-oarc.net/pipermail/dns-operations/2013-August/010485.html

> Seems like a lot of DNS abuse happening this week. Surely there’s a 
> wider story someplace?

FWIW I'm also hearing a lot of anecdotal reports of a significant uptick
in ssh port scans/dictionary attacks this week.

Keith