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Re:Every device with FB app is now DDoSing recursive DNS res... by noahtallen on Monday October 04, 2021 @06:28PM (#28752982)
My understanding is that the Facebook network itself was unreachable from the internet because of BGP. So even if an IP was resolved from DNS, that IP wouldn’t get routed to Facebook because it withdrew its routes from its peers where it connects to ISPs via BGP
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Re:Every device with FB app is now DDoSing recursive DNS res... by AnimalMuppet on Monday October 04, 2021 @06:37PM (#28753127)
Not if the IP was 127.0.0.1...
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Re:Every device with FB app is now DDoSing recursive DNS res... by messe on Monday October 04, 2021 @08:18PM (#28754066)
That's precisely what my ISP did. In fact, they went a step further and appear to have hijacked all unencrypted DNS queries. I was able to run DNS queries using 'example.com' as my DNS server and get a response.
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