[AusNOG] Traffic from Optus and Telstra CPE addresses

[Dobbins, Roland]

On Mar 4, 2014, at 12:12 PM, Joshua Riesenweber <joshua.riesenweber at outlook.com> wrote:

> Any tips on tracking this kind of thing down/getting more information? (mainly for reporting)  

What type of traffic?

There've been multiple reports recently of DNS query floods being bounced through CPE devices misconfigured as DNS forwarders in order to attack various authoritative DNS servers.  These query floods can put strain on the recursive DNS infrastructure of affected broadband ISPs, as well as the targets.

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