Many queries are received by the name servers of the 56 bitflipped variants of root-servers.net.
Many of them are ANY requests for large answers (attempts at amplification attacks?)
#OARC46
Stéphane Bortzmeyer
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2026-05-17 09:45:15 UTC
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