[dns-operations] Slow Drip DDOS Attack

Stephane Bortzmeyer bortzmeyer at nic.fr
Thu Nov 8 08:58:30 UTC 2018


On Wed, Nov 07, 2018 at 12:28:41PM +0000,
 Renee Burton <rburton at infoblox.com> wrote 
 a message of 46 lines which said:

> We agree. We debated long and hard about which name to use. In the
> end, we decided to use the dominant terminology,

Indeed, "slow drip" and "water torture" are stupid names, that don't
describe this attack at all. I'm surprised to learn this is "dominant
terminology", I most often heard "random qnames attack".



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