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Re: Open Resolver Problems
From: Harry Hoffman <hhoffman () ip-solutions net>
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 10:45:43 -0400
What are those who provide open resolvers, such as google, doing to combat the problem? It would be nice to be able to provide open resolvers as a service and combat the various threats associated with them. Cheers, Harry On 03/25/2013 10:22 AM, Jared Mauch wrote:
All, Open resolvers pose a security threat. I wanted to let everyone know about a search tool that can help you find the ones within your organization. Treat it like a big "BETA" stamp is across it, but please try it out and see if you can close down any hosts within your network. This threat is larger than the SMURF amplification attacks in the past and can result in some quite large attacks. I've seen this spilling out into other mailing lists (e.g.: juniper-nap and others). Please send feedback about links that should be included or documentation and spelling errors to me. openresolverproject.org Some basic stats: 27 million resolvers existed as of this dataset collection only 2.1 million of them were "closed". We have a lot to do to close the hosts, please do what you can to help. Thanks, - Jared
Current thread:
- Re: Open Resolver Problems, (continued)
- Re: Open Resolver Problems Nick Hilliard (Mar 25)
- Re: Open Resolver Problems Alain Hebert (Mar 25)
- Re: Open Resolver Problems William Herrin (Mar 25)
- Re: Open Resolver Problems Nick Hilliard (Mar 25)
- Re: Open Resolver Problems William Herrin (Mar 25)
- Re: Open Resolver Problems Jay Ashworth (Mar 26)
- Re: Open Resolver Problems Mikael Abrahamsson (Mar 26)
- Re: Open Resolver Problems Jared Mauch (Mar 25)
- Re: Open Resolver Problems Jon Lewis (Mar 26)
- Re: Open Resolver Problems Jared Mauch (Mar 26)
- Re: Open Resolver Problems Jared Mauch (Mar 25)
- RE: Open Resolver Problems Mike Simkins (Mar 25)
- Re: Open Resolver Problems Damian Menscher (Mar 25)
- Re: Open Resolver Problems Jared Mauch (Mar 25)
- Re: Open Resolver Problems Alain Hebert (Mar 25)
- Re: Open Resolver Problems Mark Andrews (Mar 25)
- Re: Open Resolver Problems Jared Mauch (Mar 25)
- RE: Open Resolver Problems Jamie Bowden (Mar 26)