Tag: DNS
One wrinkle in the wide-load trucks-on-the-freeway analogy is that at a certain size, UDP packets are too large to transmit without being broken up. So, while the attacker is successful in significantly amplifying the DNS responses, when the packets reach a certain size, they will get fragmented into smaller ones. Either way, the net result…
Read MoreUpdate, June 22, 2022: In light of the root cause analysis published by Cloudflare for their recent outage, we thought we’d refresh this article since it remains relevant. Much as was the case with Facebook back in October 2021, the downtime was the result of a misconfiguration of BGP – in the case of Cloudflare,…
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