[Pdns-users] Massive DNS DDOS attack

Dan Nica timi at crystal.rdstm.ro
Wed Oct 10 16:27:46 UTC 2007


since sunday night the DDOS stared, I think
it is a new virus, but we didn't find anything about this
virus ...

we have limited the queries with an iptables rule :)

On Wed, 10 Oct 2007, GAVARRET, David wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> it seems that, at least in France since monday, we are under a massive
> DDOS attack, with tons of queries (probably coming from some customers'
> zombies PC) concerning nx hosts on some russian domains like the
> following :
> q6y8La01ami4707SmEIY0R5SJ8.ultra-online.ru
> 60G6eR2dAgC1VTA43ox4F0Cu3JJAfI.ultracomp.ru
> qpT764qCL3ggh81RQROH35MuJ4meD4tvxwPe.ultracomp.ru
> 5L48F8LRnsrFfIB7oP455IJc85hE7e2.ultra-online.ru
> fR8LLaD2o3NLLtjOV0G8QcCBOpR47SO1tSEishJX3rT57.ultra-online.ru
> 
> Did any of you notice the same thing ? 
> Until now, our Recursor servers (3.1.4) seem to handle the load (+20%)
> without any problem ... thanks to Bert !
> 
> If any of you have informations concerning this attack (name of the
> virus for example :) ) ...
> 
> Best regards,
> -- 
> David Gavarret
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