DNS amplification
A type of DDoS attack distributed denial of service Flooding a service with traffic from many machines, which can take domains offline when aimed at DNS. Full definition of DDoS attack that abuses name server A server that holds a domain's DNS records and answers lookups. Full definition of name server. The attacker sends small queries with the victim's address forged as the sender. The servers send their much larger answers to the victim, multiplying the traffic. Open resolver The DNS server that looks up domain names on behalf of users. Full definition of resolver and networks that allow forged addresses make it possible.
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