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by shadyMrPatch 2460 days ago
didn't know about that. I'll give that a read later.
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Its pretty simple:

> A Domain Name Server (DNS) amplification attack is a popular form of distributed denial of service (DDoS) that relies on the use of publically accessible open DNS servers to overwhelm a victim system with DNS response traffic.

DNS queries are much smaller then DNS responses. Making a huge amount of queries uses less bandwidth then uses to respond - making it a prime candidate for DDOS attacks. Look at your logs, no doubt you will see a large number of requests for various hosts. This is your system being used to attack people. Please close the port.