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Spam Sites Crippled by Lycos Screensaver DDoS (Netcraft)

Spam Sites Crippled by Lycos Screensaver DDoS (Netcraft)

Posted Dec 3, 2004 21:48 UTC (Fri) by rmini (subscriber, #4991)
In reply to: Spam Sites Crippled by Lycos Screensaver DDoS (Netcraft) by pflugstad
Parent article: Spam Sites Crippled by Lycos Screensaver DDoS (Netcraft)

DNS DDOS, then.


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Spam Sites Crippled by Lycos Screensaver DDoS (Netcraft)

Posted Dec 9, 2004 13:19 UTC (Thu) by copsewood (subscriber, #199) [Link]

No. Not the way to do it. DNS enquiries are cached all over the world. To
defeat a DDOS on a DNS server for a domain, all the spammer has to do is increase the TTL until the content server can handle the load.

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