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From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To: Robert Eckardt <Robert.Eckardt@Robert-Eckardt.de>
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On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 10:01:33PM +0100, Robert Eckardt wrote:
> Hi,
>=20
> what measures can I take against this irregular appearing Denial-Of-Servi=
ce
> attacks of named which is filling my logfiles (messages, daemon, all.log)
> with messages like "sysquery: no addrs found for root NS" for minutes at
> a rate of 4000 lines/sec?
>=20
> I'm using named 8.3.3-REL on FBSD-5.0R.

Both are very old and have a number of known problems.  Upgrade to the
latest versions.

Kris

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