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On Mon, 15 Apr 2013 22:31:03 -0600
Jeff Taylor <shdwdrgn AT sourpuss.net> wrote:

> Rate-limiting is the best first-step in this game.  Even if you can't
> prevent your server from being used in an attack, you can at least
> greatly limit the actual damage being done to yourself and the intended
> target.  I would highly recommend that ALL public DNS servers implement
> some manner of rate limiting.
> 
might not a simple rate limiting cause problems with some clients? browsers 
for example fire lots of requests at almost the same time in order to get the 
contents as quickly as possible. would this include dns-lookups?

maybe a silly question. if so, forget it. ;-)

--martin

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