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Patches coming today for DNS vulnerability

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:05:22 GMT
Whether you're running Linux, Windows, Cisco, Sun, or other DNS servers, you are at risk from a newly discovered vulnerability. So says Dan Kaminsky, head of penetration testing research at IO Active, who accidently discovered the DNS "design flaw" earlier this year.

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dns-flood-detector

DNS-FLOOD-DETECTOR(8)					     dns flood detection tool					     DNS-FLOOD-DETECTOR(8)

NAME

       DNS-FLOOD-DETECTOR - dns flood detection and alert tool

SYNOPSIS

       dns-flood-detector [-b|-d] [-v] [-h] [-i device] [-t n] [-a n] [-w n] [-x n] [-m n]

DESCRIPTION

       DNS  Flood  Detector  was  developed  to detect abusive usage levels on high traffic nameservers and to enable quick response to the use of
       one's nameserver to facilitate spam.

OPTIONS

       -b     run in foreground in bindsnap mode

       -d     run in background in daemon mode

       -v     verbose output - use again for more verbosity

       -h     display help

       -i device
	      specify device name to listen on

       -t n   alarm at >n queries per second

       -a n   reset alarm after n seconds

       -w n   calculate stats every n seconds

       -x n   create n buckets

       -m n   report overall stats every n seconds

SEE ALSO

       Website <http://www.adotout.com/>

AUTHOR

       DNS-FLOOD-DETECTOR was written by Dennis Opacki <dopacki@adotout.com>.

       This manual page was written by Jan Wagner <waja@cyconet.org>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

1.10								    2006-11-03						     DNS-FLOOD-DETECTOR(8)

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