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BIND 9 denial of service being seen in the wild

BIND 9 denial of service being seen in the wild

Posted Nov 17, 2011 18:06 UTC (Thu) by jeleinweber (subscriber, #8326)
In reply to: BIND 9 denial of service being seen in the wild by jhardin
Parent article: BIND 9 denial of service being seen in the wild

Apparently the attack scenario involves a recursive query which hits a rogue server that provides an NXDOMAIN result with attached resource records.

Iterative only (authoritative) servers should be immune, yes.


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