I'm confused. I was working on a clients Server 2008 DNS today and removed the dns forwarders so dns would use the root hints instead, and recursion (to external, web dns queries) stopped working ...

4) The recursive DNS server forwards the DNS query to all the subdomains on the list, creating a surge in traffic for the victim's authoritative DNS server. Image: NIC.CZ NXNSAttack has a huge ...

Many DNS servers are wrongly configured or running out-of-date software, leaving them vulnerable to malicious attacks, according to a survey published on Monday. The Measurement Factory, an ...

Looking forward, Liu said that only organizations with a specific need for open recursive DNS servers — and the technical ability to keep them from being flooded — should run them.

The new DNS server — dubbed Unbound 1.0 — is available here. Unbound is a recursive DNS server, which is used by ISPs and enterprises to support DNS look-ups by users.

I'm running PiHole at home for ad-blocking, and I'm using Cloudflare as the upstream server. PiHole have a description here of how to add Unbound to the system as a recursive DNS resolver, with ...

As an alternative, you can point your computer to a public DNS server that will act as a recursive resolver. One of the most prominent public DNS servers is Google’s. The IP address is 8.8.8.8.

The new DNS server — dubbed Unbound 1.0 — is available at Unbound.net. Unbound is a recursive DNS server, which is used by ISPs and enterprises to support DNS look-ups by users.

Looking forward, Liu said that only organizations with a specific need for open recursive DNS servers — and the technical ability to keep them from being flooded — should run them.

More than 10 percent of the Internet’s DNS servers are still vulnerable to cache-poisoning attacks, according to a worldwide survey of public-facing Internet nameservers. That’s despite it ...