RE: Stopping name server abuse

2018-06-27 Thread Darcy Kevin (FCA)
--Original Message- From: bind-users On Behalf Of Barry Margolin Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2018 10:42 AM To: comp-protocols-dns-b...@isc.org Subject: Re: Stopping name server abuse In article , Paul Kosinski wrote: > Somebody who has irresponsibly (and apparently wantonly, given his >

Re: Stopping name server abuse

2018-06-26 Thread Paul Kosinski
Most of your replies seem not to address the (immediately preceding) paragraph they appear to be responding to. On Mon, 25 Jun 2018 22:15:07 +0200 Reindl Harald wrote: > > > Am 25.06.2018 um 22:01 schrieb Paul Kosinski: > > Somebody who has irresponsibly (and apparently wantonly, given his >

Re: Stopping name server abuse

2018-06-26 Thread Dave Warren
On Tue, Jun 26, 2018, at 11:54, Reindl Harald wrote: > > > Am 26.06.2018 um 20:50 schrieb Dave Warren: > > On Tue, Jun 26, 2018, at 11:47, Reindl Harald wrote: > >> > >> Am 26.06.2018 um 20:36 schrieb Dave Warren: > >>> On Tue, Jun 26, 2018, at 11:27, Reindl Harald wrote: > > > Am

Re: Stopping name server abuse

2018-06-26 Thread Dave Warren
On Tue, Jun 26, 2018, at 11:47, Reindl Harald wrote: > > Am 26.06.2018 um 20:36 schrieb Dave Warren: > > On Tue, Jun 26, 2018, at 11:27, Reindl Harald wrote: > >> > >> > >> Am 26.06.2018 um 20:18 schrieb Dave Warren: > >>> At the end of the day, I doubt there is much you can do legally, the

Re: Stopping name server abuse

2018-06-26 Thread Hika van den Hoven
Hi All, I doubt any legal action would have any chance, of cause depending on the country's law your using. The server is publicly accessible. It's like prosecuting somebody for knocking on your public front door to ask the way. (or for that matter salespeople) You only might have a chance to put

Re: Stopping name server abuse

2018-06-26 Thread Dave Warren
On Tue, Jun 26, 2018, at 11:27, Reindl Harald wrote: > > > Am 26.06.2018 um 20:18 schrieb Dave Warren: > > At the end of the day, I doubt there is much you can do legally, the only > > real solutions are technical by returning answers that will discourage > > resolvers from asking as

Re: Stopping name server abuse

2018-06-26 Thread Dave Warren
On Tue, Jun 26, 2018, at 01:28, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > On 25.06.18 09:06, Dave Warren wrote: > >Absent a situation where the customer has agreed to purchase this service, > > the only result sending an invoice would have is that you have increased > > your loss by adding wasted time,

Re: Stopping name server abuse

2018-06-26 Thread Barry Margolin
In article , Paul Kosinski wrote: > Somebody who has irresponsibly (and apparently wantonly, given his > refusal to fix it) delegated his domain(s) to your DNS server is > essentially causing a (modest bandwidth) distributed denial of service > attack on your server. I don't think that the

Re: Stopping name server abuse

2018-06-26 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On Sun, Jun 24, 2018 at 04:30:08PM -0400, Alex wrote: > We had a former customer who parked about 300 domains with his > registry on our server but is no longer a customer and hasn't moved > his domains. There aren't any hosts behind the domains. > > Is there anything more I can do to

Re: Stopping name server abuse

2018-06-25 Thread Paul Kosinski
Somebody who has irresponsibly (and apparently wantonly, given his refusal to fix it) delegated his domain(s) to your DNS server is essentially causing a (modest bandwidth) distributed denial of service attack on your server. I don't think that the "responsible" thing to do is to sit there and

Re: Stopping name server abuse

2018-06-25 Thread Dave Warren
On Sun, Jun 24, 2018, at 15:48, Mukund Sivaraman wrote: > On Sun, Jun 24, 2018 at 04:30:08PM -0400, Alex wrote: > > Hi, > > We had a former customer who parked about 300 domains with his > > registry on our server but is no longer a customer and hasn't moved > > his domains. There aren't any hosts

Re: Stopping name server abuse

2018-06-25 Thread Barry Margolin
In article , Paul Kosinski wrote: > How does *not* responding to a UDP query take longer for the *server* > than responding to UDP a query? Both responding and (deliberately) not > responding require identifying the query, but not responding bypasses > the time the server would need to

Re: Stopping name server abuse

2018-06-25 Thread Barry Margolin
In article , "Browne, Stuart" wrote: > If you're filtering on an upstream device that can do that level of analysis > without hurting your network, then maybe, but once again, you're > double-processing every legitimate query; you're only moving the cost to a > different device. An upstream

Re: Stopping name server abuse

2018-06-25 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
Am 25.06.2018 um 05:39 schrieb Paul Kosinski: > Is it possible to get BIND not to respond at all, thereby causing > a timeout on the query? That would perhaps reduce load more than > NXDOMAIN or deleting the sone(s) would. On Mon, 25 Jun 2018 15:32:44 +0200 Reindl Harald wrote: timeouts are

Re: Stopping name server abuse

2018-06-25 Thread Paul Kosinski
How does *not* responding to a UDP query take longer for the *server* than responding to UDP a query? Both responding and (deliberately) not responding require identifying the query, but not responding bypasses the time the server would need to construct the response, plus time spent in the

Re: Stopping name server abuse

2018-06-25 Thread Tony Finch
jo...@hasig.de wrote: > Am 24.06.2018 um 23:41 schrieb Barry Margolin: > > jo...@hasig.de wrote: > > > > > > why dont you just delete the zones? > > > > That won't stop the queries from coming to the server. > > yes, but it minimizes the use of resources because the only answer is > nxdomain.

RE: Stopping name server abuse

2018-06-24 Thread Browne, Stuart via bind-users
e- > From: bind-users [mailto:bind-users-boun...@lists.isc.org] On Behalf Of > Paul Kosinski > Sent: Monday, 25 June 2018 1:40 PM > To: bind-users@lists.isc.org > Subject: Re: Stopping name server abuse > > Is it possible to get BIND not to respond at all, thereby causing &g

Re: Stopping name server abuse

2018-06-24 Thread Paul Kosinski
Is it possible to get BIND not to respond at all, thereby causing a timeout on the query? That would perhaps reduce load more than NXDOMAIN or deleting the sone(s) would. On Mon, 25 Jun 2018 00:03:09 +0200 jo...@hasig.de wrote: > yes, but it minimizes the use of resources because the only

Re: Stopping name server abuse

2018-06-24 Thread Noel Butler
On 25/06/2018 10:09, ma...@isc.org wrote: > Sorry for the noise What noise? Your post is to the point and appropriate, lots of members of this list may be in this situation and ignore it because they have NFI on what to do, so you've helped them. Though personally I have done a few times

Re: Stopping name server abuse

2018-06-24 Thread A
You could ask the registrar/root domain admins to point those domains somewhere other than your server; or just delete them from the root servers at their perogative.  You might want to give your ex-customer a final warning beforehand as to your intent.  It might spur them into actionand maybe

Re: Stopping name server abuse

2018-06-24 Thread marka
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Re: Stopping name server abuse

2018-06-24 Thread Mark Andrews
You should just be able to ask the registries to remove the delegations in a sane world as per RFC 1033. COMPLAINTS These are the suggested steps you should take if you are having problems that you believe are caused by someone else's name server: 1. Complain privately to the

Re: Stopping name server abuse

2018-06-24 Thread Mukund Sivaraman
On Sun, Jun 24, 2018 at 04:30:08PM -0400, Alex wrote: > Hi, > We had a former customer who parked about 300 domains with his > registry on our server but is no longer a customer and hasn't moved > his domains. There aren't any hosts behind the domains. > > Is there anything more I can do to

Re: Stopping name server abuse

2018-06-24 Thread John W. Blue
-users@lists.isc.org Subject: Re: Stopping name server abuse Unfortunately I don't think that there is, other than the nuclear option of becoming authoritative and pointing them elsewhere. That would be a jackass move though. W On Sun, Jun 24, 2018 at 3:30 PM Alex mailto:mysqlstud...@gma

Re: Stopping name server abuse

2018-06-24 Thread jonny
yes, but it minimizes the use of resources because the only answer is nxdomain. j. Am 24.06.2018 um 23:41 schrieb Barry Margolin: In article , jo...@hasig.de wrote: hi, why dont you just delete the zones? That won't stop the queries from coming to the server.

Re: Stopping name server abuse

2018-06-24 Thread Barry Margolin
In article , jo...@hasig.de wrote: > hi, > why dont you just delete the zones? That won't stop the queries from coming to the server. -- Barry Margolin Arlington, MA ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe

Re: Stopping name server abuse

2018-06-24 Thread jonny
hi, why dont you just delete the zones? j. Am 24.06.2018 um 22:35 schrieb Warren Kumari: Unfortunately I don’t think that there is, other than the nuclear option of becoming authoritative and pointing them elsewhere. That would be a jackass move though. W On Sun, Jun 24, 2018 at 3:30 PM Alex

Re: Stopping name server abuse

2018-06-24 Thread Warren Kumari
Unfortunately I don’t think that there is, other than the nuclear option of becoming authoritative and pointing them elsewhere. That would be a jackass move though. W On Sun, Jun 24, 2018 at 3:30 PM Alex wrote: > Hi, > We had a former customer who parked about 300 domains with his > registry

Stopping name server abuse

2018-06-24 Thread Alex
Hi, We had a former customer who parked about 300 domains with his registry on our server but is no longer a customer and hasn't moved his domains. There aren't any hosts behind the domains. Is there anything more I can do to block/prevent them from continually querying my system outside of just