[57682] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: FW: DNS Servers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ray Burkholder)
Thu Apr 17 13:49:58 2003
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 13:48:01 -0400
From: "Ray Burkholder" <ray@oneunified.net>
To: <dan@streufert.com>
Cc: <tgraf@icss.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
To make a long story short, we suffered an inadvertent MS W2K AD DNS
DoS.
[Microsoft Windows 2000 Active Directory Domain Name Service Denial of
Service]
The company misconfigured their stuff and sent all their lookups our way
with milliseconds between requests. We ended up blocking their address,
and things returned to normal.
Ray Burkholder
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Streufert [mailto:danstreufert@cox.net]=20
> Sent: April 17, 2003 12:13
> To: Ray Burkholder
> Cc: tgraf@icss.com
> Subject: Re: FW: DNS Servers
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> Ray,
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> What domain are you talking about? Can you describe in more=20
> detail the problems you are seeing? Who hosts your domain name?
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> Thanks,
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> Dan
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ray Burkholder [mailto:ray@oneunified.net]=20
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2003 7:25 PM
> > To: Todd Graf
> > Subject: DNS Servers
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> > Is there anybody out there who is seeing that their DNS servers are
> > going in and out of operation? We have 5 DNS servers, the=20
> service, not
> > the server, is available/not-available/available. Am I=20
> imagining things
> > or is something funky happening?
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> > Ray Burkholder
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