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From: Michael Mol <mikemol@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to prevent a dns amplification attack
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 09:36:47 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <515598EF.10707@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <515596B1.9050908@gmail.com>

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On 03/29/2013 09:27 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On 29/03/2013 10:53, Norman Rieß wrote:
>>> That is just evil. Have you no alternative to this ISP?
>>>>
>>>>  
>>>>
>>>> -- 
>>>>
>>>> Peter
>>>>
>>>>  
>>>>
>> Like free and open DNS servers? ;-) Like the one i am talking about and
>> was told it was unnessesary crap?
> 
> 
> When you describe the service you DO get from your ISP, then we can see
> that rolling your own is the proper alternative for you. Unless your ISP
> block outbound port 53...

It'd be trivial enough for someone in a saner spot to privately offer
him an allowed-clients entry in a DNS server listening on a non-standard
port.

Either way, it's still important he not allow just anybody to connect to
his resolver.

> 
> If you were in Africa, I could give you an alternative but sadly I don't
> think you are in Africa
> 



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  reply	other threads:[~2013-03-29 13:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-28  8:51 [gentoo-user] How to prevent a dns amplification attack Norman Rieß
2013-03-28  9:07 ` Adam Carter
2013-03-28 22:16   ` Norman Rieß
2013-03-28 15:12 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2013-03-28 20:51   ` Kevin Chadwick
2013-03-28 20:57     ` Kevin Chadwick
2013-03-28 21:04       ` Michael Mol
2013-03-28 22:36         ` Kevin Chadwick
2013-03-28 15:38 ` Michael Mol
2013-03-28 16:06   ` Pandu Poluan
2013-03-28 16:10     ` Michael Mol
2013-03-28 18:26   ` Norman Rieß
2013-03-28 19:16   ` Alan McKinnon
2013-03-28 19:38     ` Michael Mol
2013-03-28 20:02       ` Alan McKinnon
2013-03-28 20:53         ` Paul Hartman
2013-03-28 20:59           ` Michael Mol
2013-03-29  0:49           ` Peter Humphrey
2013-03-29  8:53             ` Norman Rieß
2013-03-29 13:27               ` Alan McKinnon
2013-03-29 13:36                 ` Michael Mol [this message]
2013-03-29 22:34             ` Paul Hartman
2013-03-29 23:01               ` William Kenworthy
2013-03-29 23:09                 ` Michael Mol
2013-03-30  4:07               ` Walter Dnes
2013-03-30 12:06               ` Norman Rieß
2013-03-30 14:53                 ` Rene Rasmussen
2013-03-30 15:15                   ` [Bulk] " Kevin Chadwick
2013-03-30 15:30                     ` Tanstaafl
2013-03-30 15:11                 ` Kevin Chadwick
2013-03-30 16:44                   ` Norman Rieß
2013-03-30 17:30                   ` [gentoo-user] Re: [seriously O/T] " Mick
2013-03-29 13:24           ` [gentoo-user] " Alan McKinnon
2013-03-28 16:53 ` Jarry
2013-03-28 19:40   ` Paul Ezvan
2013-03-31  2:08 ` Paul Hartman
2013-03-31  8:47   ` Jarry
2013-03-31 19:07   ` Norman Rieß

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