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BCP 140
RFC 5358
Title: Preventing Use of Recursive Nameservers
in Reflector Attacks
Author: J. Damas, F. Neves
Status: Best Current Practice
Date: October 2008
Mailbox: Joao_Damas@isc.org,
fneves@registro.br
Pages: 7
Characters: 14957
See Also: BCP0140
I-D Tag: draft-ietf-dnsop-reflectors-are-evil-06.txt
URL: http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5358.txt
This document describes ways to prevent the use of default configured
recursive nameservers as reflectors in Denial of Service (DoS)
attacks. It provides recommended configuration as measures to
mitigate the attack. This document specifies an Internet Best Current
Practices for the Internet Community, and requests discussion and
suggestions for improvements.
This document is a product of the Domain Name System Operations Working Group of the IETF.
BCP: This document specifies an Internet Best Current Practices for the
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