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Re: DNS DOS increasing?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Avleen Vig)
Sun Jan 20 19:01:49 2002

Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 00:00:10 +0000 (GMT)
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On Sat, 19 Jan 2002, Matt Martini wrote:

> I've been seeing some strange problems in DNS lately (named 8.2.4-REL)
> where the nameserver stops resolving certain sites. During investigation
> I noticed that my query rate is way up. Many more DNS requests than
> normal are hitting my servers. Is anyone else seeing anything like this?

Could just be that someone || groupd of people, have decided to use your
DNS servers as their own for resolving queries?

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Avleen Vig
Network Security Officer
Smurf Amplifier Finding Executive: http://www.ircnetops.org/smurf


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