26 Mar
2013
26 Mar
'13
8:01 a.m.
On Mar 26, 2013, at 6:50 PM, Jamie Bowden wrote:
let's suppose I just happen to have, or have access to, a botnet comprised of (tens of) millions of random hosts all over the internet, and I feel like destroying your DNS servers via DDoS;
DNS reflection/amplification attacks aren't intended as attacks against the DNS, per se; they're intended to crush any/all targeted servers and/or fill transit pipes. Same for SNMP and ntp reflection attacks. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Roland Dobbins <rdobbins@arbor.net> // <http://www.arbornetworks.com> Luck is the residue of opportunity and design. -- John Milton