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[Kenny Taylor <kennytaylor AT runbox.com>]

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If one wanted it to be a DDoS catalyst, why do 511 A records?  Why not a few 
TXT records instead?


Julian DeMarchi <julian AT jdcomputers.com.au> wrote:

>On 06/11/2013 04:13 PM, Quinn Wood wrote:
>> Perhaps instead of making claims that a zone won't be used for
>> anything than attacks backed on its name, folks should perform
>> heuristics checks on, I don't know, the actual zone.
>>
>> Any Tom, Dick, or Harry can register stopddos.est and pop the same
>> records into it.
>
> dig ddostheinter.net ANY
>
>;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 8290
>
>This forces TCP.
>
>]$ dig ddostheinter.net +short | wc -l
>511
>
>Why would someone have 511 A records for @....
>
>--julian
>
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