Sounds like a DNS Amplification attack?

http://securitytnt.com/dns-amplification-attack/

-Dave.

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] 
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Cliff Stanford
Sent: 31 January 2013 11:32
To: [email protected]
Subject: [uknof] DNS DDoS

Just before 09:00 this morning we saw a 100 Mbps port saturated.  Upon 
investigation the traffic appears to be DNS responses to requests that were 
never made.

Over the following 5 minutes, we saw over 600,000 UDP DNS responses originating 
from 20 different DNS servers.  The servers all seem to be genuine, 
authoritative servers.

They were all targeted at a single server our side and the destination ports on 
the targeted system included nearly pretty much the whole range.

Is this a known DDoS attack, it's a new one on me?  Any suggestions on how to 
deal it?

Regards,
Cliff.

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