You guys might want to be aware that isprime.com (I am not affiliated or representing them, just passing on info since friends and I noticed this) is actively under a DOS where lots of people's dns servers around the world are being queried with bogus sourced dns requests not from port 53 for 'NS? .'. This then bounces back to their authoritative nameservers which are getting traffic overload. They've asked that those of us that can should block all but port 53 from the following two IP's (their dns servers as seen on whois) so as not to block legitimate dns info:

66.230.128.15 66.230.160.1

Here is the response from their abuse department:

To: to...@fries.net Subject: Re: dos info? From: ISPrime Support <supp...@isprime.com> Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 15:16:02 -0500 (EST)

Hello,

These are the result of a spoofed dns recursion attack against our servers. The
actual packets in question (the ones reaching your servers) do NOT originate
from our network as such there is no way for us to filter things from our end.

If you are receiving queries from 76.9.31.42/76.9.16.171 neither of these
machines make legitimate outbound dns requests so an inbound filter of packets
to udp/53 from either of these two sources is perfect.

If you are receiving queries from 66.230.128.15/66.230.160.1 these servers are
authoritative nameservers. Please do not blackhole either of these IPs as they
host many domains. However, these IPs do not make outbound DNS requests so
filtering requests to your IPs from these ips with a destination port of 53
should block any illegitimate requests.

An ACL similar to: access-list 110 deny udp host 66.230.160.1 neq 53 any eq 53 access-list 110 deny udp host 66.230.128.15 neq 53 any eq 53 Is what you want.

I would also suggest taking a look at the excellent CYMRU secure bind template
(assuming you are running bind), to help you configure your nameservers so that
you do not participate in this attack:
http://www.cymru.com/Documents/secure-bind-template.html.

Thanks for your help in mitigating this attack against us.

Please let me know if I can be of further assistance.

ISPrime Support supp...@isprime.com ICQ: 136633378

On 2009-01-20, at 15:14:33, "Todd T. Fries" <to...@fries.net> wrote:

Thanks,

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