[AusNOG] Why BCP38 is important

[Dobbins, Roland]

On Nov 2, 2012, at 5:35 PM, Mark Andrews wrote:

>  Authoratative servers are also vulnerable to be used as amplifiers.

Yes, and I mentioned that, too, along with an explanation of why an attacker would choose to use intermediate recursors vs. sending the spoofed traffic directly to the authoritative servers in question - but again, that commentary didn't include it in the article.

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