Re: [Declude.JunkMail] OT: DNS attacks

2005-08-20 Thread Ing. Andrés E. Gallo
Andres Dave Doherty escribi: MS-DNS does not allow this afaik -d - Original Message - From: Nick Hayer To: Declude.JunkMail@declude.com Sent: Friday, August 19, 2005 10:20 AM Subject: Re: [Declude.JunkMail] OT: DNS attacks

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] OT: DNS attacks

2005-08-19 Thread System Administrator
on 8/18/05 3:08 PM, Matt wrote: Agreed on the splitting idea. Keep one DNS firewalled from the outside world and for use just by your clients and their address space, and then another one that only resolves what you host and is open to everyone. I guess I was on the right path. I did change

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] OT: DNS attacks

2005-08-19 Thread Nick Hayer
Morning Dave, That would deny his internal users the ability to resolve external domains. Well you *may* have me on this one :) I do not know what dns server is being used. I use SimpleDNS so I can allow recursion by ip address/subnet. Bind as well does this: [ recurseallow ]

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] OT: DNS attacks

2005-08-19 Thread Matt
Nick, It's not a technical issue regarding recursion, it's an issue of needing recursion for customers, and wanting to block recursion when coming from the outside world where the attacks are coming from. Kevin indicated that BIND can handle doing that on the same server, but AFAIK MS DNS

Re[2]: [Declude.JunkMail] OT: DNS attacks

2005-08-19 Thread Sanford Whiteman
(nor have I heard that SimpleDNS does this either but could be wrong). Simple DNS does allow granular control of recursion by IP. Nick was saying that if the OP were running Simple or Bind, then his (Nick's) suggestion to limit recursion would not mean that the OP would be turning

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] OT: DNS attacks

2005-08-19 Thread Dave Doherty
MS-DNS does not allow this afaik -d - Original Message - From: Nick Hayer To: Declude.JunkMail@declude.com Sent: Friday, August 19, 2005 10:20 AM Subject: Re: [Declude.JunkMail] OT: DNS attacks Morning Dave, That would deny his internal users

[Declude.JunkMail] OT: DNS attacks

2005-08-18 Thread System Administrator
Any dns experts on the list? Last week I noticed our one dns server was running at 100% cpu and using nearly all its available memory. Reboot. Problem goes away until next day. Repeat, etc. I determined that an outside entity was hammering the dns server. Blocked them at the main router. Problem

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] OT: DNS attacks

2005-08-18 Thread Markus Gufler
Any dns experts on the list? I'm not an expert but ...The server needs to do dns lookups for our clients, That's not a problem as long as you allow outgoing DNS traffic on your firewall (or in your case cisco router) and needs to be available to other internet DNS servers for

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] OT: DNS attacks

2005-08-18 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
AM To: Declude.JunkMail@declude.com Subject: [Declude.JunkMail] OT: DNS attacks Any dns experts on the list? Last week I noticed our one dns server was running at 100% cpu and using nearly all its available memory. Reboot. Problem goes away until next day. Repeat, etc. I determined

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] OT: DNS attacks

2005-08-18 Thread System Administrator
on 8/18/05 1:49 PM, Markus Gufler wrote: Are they querrieng info's about domain names you're hosting or are this requests for completely other domains and your server does the lookup and report the result to the client. The second case (other domains). From what I've been able to determine,

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] OT: DNS attacks

2005-08-18 Thread Matt
Administrator Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2005 5:39 AM To: Declude.JunkMail@declude.com Subject: [Declude.JunkMail] OT: DNS attacks Any dns experts on the list? Last week I noticed our one dns server was running at 100% cpu and using nearly all its available memory. Reboot. Problem goes away until next day

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] OT: DNS attacks

2005-08-18 Thread Kevin Bilbee
on your findings, and keep it in this OT: thread. Andrew 8) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of System Administrator Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2005 5:39 AM To: Declude.JunkMail@declude.com Subject: [Declude.JunkMail] OT: D

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] OT: DNS attacks

2005-08-18 Thread Kevin Bilbee
the archive. To me bind also seems more flexable. Kevin Bilbee -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Kevin BilbeeSent: Thursday, August 18, 2005 1:42 PMTo: Declude.JunkMail@declude.comSubject: RE: [Declude.JunkMail] OT: DNS attacks

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] OT: DNS attacks

2005-08-18 Thread Dave Doherty
, August 18, 2005 3:06 PM Subject: Re: [Declude.JunkMail] OT: DNS attacks Hi Greg, Are they querrieng info's about domain names you're hosting or are this requests for completely other domains and your server does the lookup and report the result to the client. The second case