Spam Sites Crippled by Lycos Screensaver DDoS (Netcraft)

Spam Sites Crippled by Lycos Screensaver DDoS (Netcraft)

Posted Dec 9, 2004 13:19 UTC (Thu) by copsewood (subscriber, #199)
In reply to: Spam Sites Crippled by Lycos Screensaver DDoS (Netcraft) by rmini
Parent article: Spam Sites Crippled by Lycos Screensaver DDoS (Netcraft)

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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