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Re: DNS DOS increasing?


From: Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels () cistron nl>
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 17:58:03 +0000 (UTC)


In article <cistron.171DAAD54475984F8F41345A0945DF9C39ED49 () hqexchange presidio com>,
James Smith  <jsmith () PRESIDIO com> wrote:
 Get ready for more DOS-like behavior as systems get deployed that have 10
second TTLs in the DNS. These systems are used to provide multi-isp
redundancy by pinging each upstreams router, and when a ping fails, start
giving out a dns response using the other ISP IP range. Same FQDN, new IP.

So what we need is a tunable on the caching DNS server that says

min_allowed_ttl = 300;

if (ttl < min_allowed_ttl) ttl = min_allowed_ttl;

If the above becomes a problem, this will happen.

Mike.


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