Re: limiting number of requests of a single hosts

2012-06-15 Thread Sten Carlsen
On 15/06/12 16:37, Holemans Wim wrote: > > Wim Holemans > Netwerkdienst Universiteit Antwerpen > Network Services University of Antwerp > > > One of the problems is that these firewalls are going to be replaced soon and > we don't want to spend to much effort in trying to fix what seems an annoy

Re: limiting number of requests of a single hosts

2012-06-15 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, On Fri, 15 Jun 2012, Holemans Wim wrote: ... Once or twice a day a DNS burst (20K requests/15sec) kills all connections on the firewall. Have you disabled firewall connection tracking for DNS requests? We have 6 dns servers (bind) on our campus, that are all authoritative for our

Re: limiting number of requests of a single hosts

2012-06-15 Thread Warren Kumari
On Jun 15, 2012, at 4:25 AM, Holemans Wim wrote: > We have a problem with one of our firewalls caused by DNS peaks. Yes. W > Once or twice a day a DNS burst (20K requests/15sec) kills all connections on > the firewall. > The firewall is due for replacement but in the mean time we would like

Re: limiting number of requests of a single hosts

2012-06-15 Thread pangj
You DO realize that DNS is (mostly) UDP packets, and an attacker (or in your case, the ADs) can simply send UDP packet floods to kill your firewall (in your current state), regardless how your DNS server is configured, even when the DNS server is down? Once we had the firewall for DNS, when it

RE: limiting number of requests of a single hosts

2012-06-15 Thread Holemans Wim
werkdienst Universiteit Antwerpen Network Services University of Antwerp -Original Message- From: Fajar A. Nugraha [mailto:w...@fajar.net] Sent: vrijdag 15 juni 2012 17:02 To: Holemans Wim Cc: bind-users@lists.isc.org Subject: Re: limiting number of requests of a single hosts On Fri, Jun 15, 2012

Re: limiting number of requests of a single hosts

2012-06-15 Thread Fajar A. Nugraha
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 9:37 PM, Holemans Wim wrote: > > > Wim Holemans > Netwerkdienst Universiteit Antwerpen > Network Services University of Antwerp > > > One of the problems is that these firewalls are going to be replaced soon and > we don't want to spend to much effort in trying to fix what

RE: limiting number of requests of a single hosts

2012-06-15 Thread Holemans Wim
Wim Holemans Netwerkdienst Universiteit Antwerpen Network Services University of Antwerp One of the problems is that these firewalls are going to be replaced soon and we don't want to spend to much effort in trying to fix what seems an annoying side-effect of something caused by a DNS system.

Re: limiting number of requests of a single hosts

2012-06-15 Thread WBrown
bind-users-bounces+wbrown=e1b@lists.isc.org wrote on 06/15/2012 04:25:16 AM: > We have a problem with one of our firewalls caused by DNS peaks. > Once or twice a day a DNS burst (20K requests/15sec) kills all > connections on the firewall. > The firewall is due for replacement but in the me

Re: limiting number of requests of a single hosts

2012-06-15 Thread Fr34k
Hello, You may wish to read ISC/BIND's ARM about these settings (i.e., what they do, how they work, what the defaults are, etc):     recursive-clients N;     tcp-clients M;     clients-per-query P;     max-clients-per-query R; where N, M, P, and R are numbers appropriate for y

Re: limiting number of requests of a single hosts

2012-06-15 Thread Tony Finch
Holemans Wim wrote: > > I have 2 questions, one, is there a way  to rate-limit the amount of > request a single client (the AD servers in this case) can have standing > out against a bind server ? Kind of rate-limiting parameter for bind > name server. There isn't a way to do this in BIND. If you