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Re:AWS Experiencing Intermittent DNS Resolution Errors by Aperocky on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @05:37PM (#21328734)
It's amazing how much a ddos attack can do.

I read a few days back that when attackers had trouble attacking cloudflare they then went for the internet infrastructure (Internet Exchange) itself. In this case attacking a DNS service can block connection to a much larger set of internet.

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Re:AWS Experiencing Intermittent DNS Resolution Errors by foota on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @05:44PM (#21328787)
Fwiw from some info posted above it sounds like it's the automated response to the DDoS causing issues, not the DDoS itself.
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Re:AWS Experiencing Intermittent DNS Resolution Errors by Aperocky on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @07:22PM (#21329482)
That would still be part of the ddos though, No mitigation is impact free.
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Re:AWS Experiencing Intermittent DNS Resolution Errors by throw554 on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @05:43PM (#21328776)
DNS is the weakest link for many companies.
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