DNS DoS ???

[blake at pfankuch.me (Blake T. Pfankuch)]

I've seen this for the same on about 3 sets of nameservers I operate.  fail2ban doing a 72 hour iptables drop rule.

-----Original Message-----
From: Drew Weaver [mailto:drew.weaver at thenap.com] 
Sent: Friday, July 29, 2011 3:01 PM
To: 'Elliot Finley'; nanog at nanog.org
Subject: RE: DNS DoS ???

We've been seeing this for several years on and off.

thanks,
-Drew


-----Original Message-----
From: Elliot Finley [mailto:efinley.lists at gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, July 29, 2011 2:51 PM
To: nanog at nanog.org
Subject: DNS DoS ???

my DNS servers were getting slow so I blocked recursive queries for all but my own network.

Then I was getting so many of these:

ns2 named[5056]: client 78.159.111.190#25345: query (cache) 'isc.org/ANY/IN' denied

that is was still slowing things down.  I've since written a script to watch the log and throw these into the box local firewall.  If I expire the entries after 24 hours then I accumulate about 10200 unique IPs.  If I expire after 48 hours, then it's just over 20000 unique IPs.

Is anyone else seeing this?

Elliot