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Date:      Tue, 16 Dec 2003 20:28:10 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Robert Eckardt <Robert.Eckardt@Robert-Eckardt.de>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: DOS of named
Message-ID:  <20031217042810.GA31507@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20031216191701.M14568@Robert-Eckardt.de>
References:  <20031216191701.M14568@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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