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Excessive DNS Requests

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anderson, Ian)
Wed Oct 13 14:50:34 2004

Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 19:49:03 +0100
From: "Anderson, Ian" <i.anderson@lancaster.ac.uk>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
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Anyone else seeing excessive DNS requests hammering their local
forwarders this evening.  We've just taken our residence network
off-line owing to the level of port 53 traffic coming from it.  Can't
see anything in the usual places regarding this....

Cheers

Ian

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Ian Anderson
Network Support
Lancaster University
t: 01524 593393 ~ IP: 01524 510101 ~f: 01524 525125
mailto:i.anderson@lancs.ac.uk


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<P><FONT SIZE=3D2 FACE=3D"Arial">Anyone else seeing excessive DNS =
requests hammering their local forwarders this evening.&nbsp; We've just =
taken our residence network off-line owing to the level of port 53 =
traffic coming from it.&nbsp; Can't see anything in the usual places =
regarding this&#8230;.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE=3D2 FACE=3D"Arial">Cheers</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=3D2 FACE=3D"Arial">Ian</FONT>
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<P><FONT COLOR=3D"#800000" SIZE=3D1 FACE=3D"Arial">-- </FONT>

<BR><FONT COLOR=3D"#800000" SIZE=3D1 FACE=3D"Arial">Ian Anderson</FONT>

<BR><FONT COLOR=3D"#800000" SIZE=3D1 FACE=3D"Arial">Network =
Support</FONT>

<BR><FONT COLOR=3D"#800000" SIZE=3D1 FACE=3D"Arial">Lancaster =
University</FONT>

<BR><FONT COLOR=3D"#800000" SIZE=3D1 FACE=3D"Arial">t: 01524 593393 ~ =
IP: 01524 510101 ~f: 01524 525125</FONT>

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