Reply to post: Re: Urgently patch your publicly available, recursive DNS server

DNS this week stands for Drowning Needed Services: Design flaw in name server system can be exploited to flood machines offline

Muppet Boss

Re: Urgently patch your publicly available, recursive DNS server

>> The attacker uses the authoritative that it owns to craft a response to a resolver with a referral that contains n new and non-existent name-server names ..., gets a DDoS attack on either the resolver or on a corresponding authoritative server, with an amplification factor of O(F) packets ... .

Sounds like a Cunning Plan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQk_832EAx4

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