[106699] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: maybe a dumb idea on how to fix the dns problems i don't know....
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Paul)
Sun Aug 10 16:06:31 2008
Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2008 13:06:06 -0700
From: Chris Paul <chris.paul@rexconsulting.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <2CD297B5-AA9E-47D4-992D-D17CEEFA50D2@the-watsons.org>
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brett watson wrote:
>> Hey authority DNS server operators. Can you make a change to your
>> servers to always allow TCP client connections? Would this be
>> difficult? What would be the harm?
>
> SYN flooding?
>
from your clients? We ways of knowing people on our local network are
doing this type of thing and turn them off at the switch today. Why are
you are doing dns recursion for people outside your network?
CP
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