Re: DDos counter measures

[Gael Martinez <gael () magicnet org>]

Try some other tests using no A record for windowsupdate.com in your local zone,
you will notice that the damages are even smaller doing that instead of localhost (127.0.0.1).

Gael


On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 08:04:54PM +0200, Laurent LEVIER wrote:
> All,
>
> Since our IntraNet solves all its DNS queries through internal caches 
> (mandatory bottleneck), we created windowsupdate.com & 
> windowsupdate.microsoft.com zones in this bottleneck DNS. These are 
> resolving to 127.0.0.1 with DNS wildcards.
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