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On Mar 26, 2013, at 6:50 PM, Jamie Bowden wrote:
> let's suppose I just happen to have, or have access to, a botnet comprised of (tens of) millions of random hosts all over the internet, and I feel like destroying your DNS servers via DDoS;
DNS reflection/amplification attacks aren't intended as attacks against the DNS, per se; they're intended to crush any/all targeted servers and/or fill transit pipes.
Same for SNMP and ntp reflection attacks.
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