[ale] Fwd: Under Attack, my dns servers

Chuck Payne terrorpup at gmail.com
Mon Oct 6 15:54:28 EDT 2014


That's my problem.  I am running Debian and I don't know a good, easy to
use firewall. These servers are import because I used as a lab, everything
was great until three weeks ago. :(  These boxes are public facing, I do
things running people need to access.

On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 3:47 PM, Michael H. Warfield <mhw at wittsend.com>
wrote:

> On Mon, 2014-10-06 at 15:13 -0400, Horkan Smith wrote:
> > Can you share the lines where you control access (including recursion)?
> In my case, they look like:
> >
> > named.conf.options:
> >         allow-transfer { home-nets; domain-backups; };
> >         allow-recursion { home-nets; domain-backups; };
> >         allow-query { home-nets; domain-backups; };
>
> It's worth noting that these do not prevent attackers from exploiting
> your own name servers to attack you internally.  They just spoof the
> requests from your internal (even private) addresses to request huge
> blocks of response data which will then be cached in your servers and
> reflected back to hammer you.  It's much better if you can block access
> from the external net (either external interface or at your router) to
> your recursive cacher, which then blocks incoming spoofed packets from
> your internal addresses.  Most firewalls can discriminate between
> recursive requests and terminal requests, so you'll still end up needing
> a non-recursive DNS server for your authoritative zones.
>
> Regards,
> Mike
>
> > Where home-nets and domain-backups are defined as acls.
> >
> > later!
> >    horkan
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Oct 06, 2014 at 12:03:39PM -0400, Chuck Payne wrote:
> > > Guys,
> > >
> > > I am under attack where my dns server is being used to do a ddos
> attack. I
> > > believe it's a bot net, because the ip are too random. I don't think
> the
> > > domain I am seeing in my bind log is real
> > >
> > > fkfkfkfz.guru
> > >
> > > 06-Oct-2014 11:23:28.146 client 92.222.9.179#49643: query:
> fkfkfkfz.guru IN
> > > ANY +E (50.192.59.225)
> > > 06-Oct-2014 11:23:28.146 client 92.222.9.179#49643: query (cache)
> > > 'fkfkfkfz.guru/ANY/IN' denied
> > > 06-Oct-2014 11:23:28.146 client 92.222.9.179#49643: drop REFUSED
> response
> > > to 92.222.9.0/24
> > >
> > > I have turn on recursion, but now people can't find my domains any
> more.
> > > I have also try to limit the rate as well
> > >
> > >   rate-limit {
> > >                 responses-per-second 25;
> > >                 window 5;
> > >         };
> > >
> > >
> > > I am running Debian and openSUSE.
> > >
> > > Anything I can do to stop them and make where people can find my
> domains? I
> > > don't want to have to pay for something I can do and have control over.
> > >
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