2 June 2006
San Jose, CA
US/Pacific timezone

Finding Open Resolvers

Not scheduled
20m
San Jose, CA

San Jose, CA

Speaker

Duane Wessels (Verisign)

Description

Open DNS resolvers may be considered a threat to Internet security because they increase the possibility of cache poisoning, and have been used in large-scale DDoS attacks. This talk explains our technique for probing DNS resolvers for openness, how we find resolvers to probe, and what our probes have uncovered.

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