Tag: DNS-Over-TLS

Today, I Survived a Triple DNS DDoS—And Learned the Power of Port 853

May 26, 2024

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Richard Applegate

in Network and IT System Information, Work Life

What a wild ride! As someone who cares deeply about keeping ads and trackers away, I run not one, not two, but three Adguard Home DNS servers for my network and my work and a few trusted friends. Things were smooth…until today’s wake-up call. When 3 DNS Servers All Go Down Early this morning, my…
DNS amplification attack | closing the 53 port on my AdGuard Home Server.

May 21, 2024

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by

Richard Applegate

in Administrator Linux, Network and IT System Information

Today, I turned off the DNS port 53. Since we have been cutting off our store’s DNS server, it has been a DNS amplification attack. So I found out that my Router does have a DNS Proxy, My DNS Server does have HTTP over TLS and DNS-over-HTTPS. Everything is working and attacking is currently stopped…