Re: recursive DNS servers DDoS as a growing DDoS problem
- From: "mike davis" <phar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 18:27:49 -0500
If you have a 20,000 bot botnet and each bot has 2 defined recursive dns
servers that it is allowed to use and these bots are on the local subnet (ie
BCP38 is implimented at the gateway but not at every router) then how
exactly is locking down recursive servers so you can only use yours going to
solve anything?
uh... caching maybe?... the second field of your answer section when using dig..
To fix DNS we would have to eliminate it's use of UDP which means pretty
much all internet software would need to be rewritten, that is an
unrealistic goal.
no, its not, and it doesnt require that all internet sofware be rewritten, it means that they either need to be
recompiled, or just have the dynamicly linked library they use for dns resolution to be replaced..
Locking down recursive servers may increase the number of
machines required to create a flood but again a large botnet will have no
problem so that's no solution either. BCP38 will accomplish the same
ineffective goal but at least has the added potential to reduce non DNS
related spoofed attacks at the same time making it easier to at least track
down the sources of a distributed flood at least to the provider level if
not to the exact IP.
i think its pretty obvious that locking down dns servers at least brings the DNS attacks down to the same problem weve always had..
that being good old fashioned udp packeting. and at that point.. why bother using dns..
-phar
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