[169253] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: random dns queries with random sources
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Masataka Ohta)
Wed Feb 19 16:40:06 2014
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 06:39:22 +0900
From: Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <5304201A.3040508@ttec.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Joe Maimon wrote:
> What is the purpose of this?
It may be an experiment that rate limiting is useless to suppress
amplification against attacks simultaneously on many targets.
A better protection should be to shutdown secure DNS, which is
not very secure.
Masataka Ohta
