Ill second that idea. For the good of the Internet now that theses attacks are 
a daily occurrence now. I'd chalk it up to being a good neighbor/netizen. 

Windows is the same way.  I ended up as a participant in that attack because I 
forgot to flip that switch. :(. Thank god for bandwidth monitoring and a 
heads-up networking team.  we only participated in it for a couple hours before 
we realized the issue and plugged the holes. 



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On Mar 29, 2013, at 9:18 AM, Colin Jack <co...@mainline.co.uk> wrote:

> Also - the 'cache lookups' is on by default! 
> Maybe this should be changed on the ISO and VPS templates?
> 
> On 20 Mar 2013, at 21:47, Michael Stauber <mstau...@blueonyx.it> wrote:
> 
>> Hi George,
>> 
>>> You may have been a unwitting part  of this:
>>> 
>>> http://blog.cloudflare.com/the-ddos-that-knocked-spamhaus-offline-and-ho
>> 
>> While this is good advice and should be common practice: It doesn't
>> protect against excessive 'ANY?' queries. Just saying.
>> 
>> --
> 
> Regards
> 
> Colin
> 
> 
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