{"id":4555,"date":"2014-01-18T17:52:52","date_gmt":"2014-01-19T00:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.networkpresence.co\/?p=4555"},"modified":"2014-01-18T17:52:52","modified_gmt":"2014-01-19T00:52:52","slug":"helping-customers-wrt-dns-amplification-ddos-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.networkpresence.co\/?p=4555","title":{"rendered":"Helping customers wrt DNS Amplification DDOS Attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s been a new wave of these Name Server exploits to cause global &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.itnews.com.au\/News\/343588,dns-ddos-attacks-skyrocket.aspx\">DNS Amplification<\/a>&#8221; DDOS Attacks and some customers are asking for information and help in stopping their Name Servers being utilised for this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.us-cert.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/publications\/DNS-recursion033006.pdf\" title=\"US CERT pdf\">undesirable<\/a> network activity.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re available to help any Network Presence customer in checking and stopping any Name Server they may run within Network Presence, so customers please feel free to <a href=\"http:\/\/netpr.es\/contactus\" title=\"Contact Network Presence\">contact us<\/a> to do this on your VPS or Colo service.<\/p>\n<p>Generally there&#8217;s no charge for this to customers, as we&#8217;re glad to see updated and well configured Name Servers within our network.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll post more information about this exploit and how to check and close it on the Bind open-source Name Server shortly.<\/p>\n<p>Regards,<br \/>\nRichard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s been a new wave of these Name Server exploits to cause global &#8220;DNS Amplification&#8221; DDOS Attacks and some customers are asking for information and help in stopping their Name Servers being utilised for this undesirable network activity. We&#8217;re available &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.networkpresence.co\/?p=4555\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,70],"tags":[342,11,78],"class_list":["post-4555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-network-presence","category-sales","tag-ddos","tag-dns","tag-sysadmin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.networkpresence.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.networkpresence.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.networkpresence.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.networkpresence.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.networkpresence.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4555"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/blog.networkpresence.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4559,"href":"http:\/\/blog.networkpresence.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4555\/revisions\/4559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.networkpresence.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.networkpresence.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.networkpresence.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}