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Date:      Wed, 03 Jun 2015 18:02:52 -0700
From:      Bruce Ferrell <bferrell@baywinds.org>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: port 53 under attack
Message-ID:  <556FA3BC.7010801@baywinds.org>
In-Reply-To: <1433375821.72071.40.camel@pki2.com>
References:  <556F87A6.8090105@a1poweruser.com> <1433375821.72071.40.camel@pki2.com>

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On 06/03/2015 04:57 PM, Dennis Glatting wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-06-03 at 19:03 -0400, joeb1 wrote:
>> Hello list
>> :
>> My firewall blocks unsolicited inbound traffic on port 53. I realize 
>> this is the DNS port. But I am getting over 200K  hits per day from ip 
>> addresses from all over the world. My host has a dynamic ip address. Is 
>> there any valid reason for this to be happening?
> You could be used as a DOS amplifier.
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Are you running an open DNS server?



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