Where Are All the Dangerous DNS Exploits? Nowhere and Everywhere

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Aug 8, 2008

“”There are a lot of Chinese sites that are actively trying to
exploit the flaw to the point that some major network New HP
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savings. operators are blocking all traffic from China,” Beckman
said. “Some customers are finding this out as they try to get some
of their Olympic coverage from China,” he added.

“It doesn’t help that many DNS servers are some of the oldest
servers in data centers. Because DNS servers typically have fairly
light loads, they don’t need to have a lot processing power and
memory. But now, Beckman said, “some DNS servers are falling over
just from the attack traffic.””

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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