[ratelimits] error in amplification attack

Hugo Salgado hsalgado at nic.cl
Tue Nov 13 17:53:36 UTC 2012



On 11/13/2012 02:44 PM, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 10:38:30AM -0600, Lyle Giese wrote:
>> It would appear that they are missing the .<suffix>.  I don't know
>> what reply my server gives back in this case.  
> 

My server (a small and personal domain) is under the same attack. It
seems the attackers are looking only for TLDs, so the amplification
factor fails with SLDs. In my case, I give a tiny 25 bytes SERVFAIL.

Hugo


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