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Re: Reporting DDOS reflection attacks


From: Larry Sheldon <larrysheldon () cox net>
Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2014 19:23:32 -0600

On 11/9/2014 13:40, Doug Barton wrote:
On 11/8/14 6:33 PM, Roland Dobbins wrote:
this is incorrect and harmful, and should be removed:

     iii.    Consider dropping any DNS reply packets which are larger
than 512 Bytes – these are commonly found in DNS DoS Amplification
attacks.

This *breaks the Internet*.  Don't do it.

+1

The whole thing>  Really?

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