[Pdns-users] Ongoing DNS Denial of Service attacks & 3.6.0

[Ciro Iriarte]

El may 30, 2014 6:08 AM, "bert hubert" <bert.hubert at netherlabs.nl> escribió:
>
> Hi everybody,
>
> To add some context to the RC1 release, many large scale resolver
operators
> are currently seeing high levels of DNS-based denial of service attacks.
>
> 3.6.0 contains specific countermeaures for the current wave of attacks,
and
> comes with a more generic Lua feature to rapidly filter malicious traffic
> [1]. Together these mean that the deployments that have upgraded already
are
> weathering the current wave of attacks with no problems at all.
>
> 3.6.0 is in full production in a number of large places. If you are
> currently suffering degraded performance because of DoS in 3.5 or earlier
> versions, your upgrade to RC1 will help you and your users tremendously.
>
> We consider RC1 production grade and will quickly follow up with the
actual
> 3.6.0. If you upgrade now and have issues, please be assured that we will
> help you swiftly.
>
> Good luck!
>
>         Bert
>         PowerDNS
>
> [1] As an example, see http://pastie.org/9238804 based on the new
pdns.DROP
> facility.
>
> > Release Candidate 1 of the PowerDNS Recursor 3.6.0 is available from:
> >
> > source: http://powerdnssec.org/downloads/pdns-recursor-3.6.0-rc1.tar.bz2
> > semistatic packages: http://powerdnssec.org/downloads/packages/
> > RHEL5/6 native:
https://www.monshouwer.eu/download/3rd_party/pdns-recursor/rc1/
> >
> > You are cordially invited to (carefully) test this Release Candidate for
> > correct behaviour.
> >
> > Full release notes, with clickable links, are available from:
> > http://doc.powerdns.com/html/changelog.html#changelog-recursor-3.6.0
>
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Hi Bert!, did the example made it to the documentation?, unluckily the
provided link is dead now.

Regards,
Ciro
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