[74748] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Excessive DNS Requests
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David A. Ulevitch)
Wed Oct 13 15:08:50 2004
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Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 12:08:13 -0700 (PDT)
From: "David A. Ulevitch" <davidu@everydns.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
<quote who="Anderson, Ian">
> 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....
Things seem normal over here...
http://fiona.everybox.com/~davidu/dns1-101304-120500pdt.png
(authoritative ns)
Are the residents actually making legit DNS queries or just spewing down
port 53?
-davidu
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