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Techgeeeg_28888
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Jan 03, 2014

DDos DNS protection on LC & DNS Express

Hi Everyone, I want to know how can I protect the DDos attack on F5 Link controller. I was not able to see any configuration related to that. Also if someone can let me know about DNS Express if they...
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Pedro_Haoa
Ret. Employee
Jan 03, 2014

Hi,

 

There are several features to mitigate some types of Denial of Service (DoS) attacks.

 

Please check the following links to learn more about it:

 

Mitigating Denial of Service Attacks

 

http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_ltm/manuals/product/ltm-implementations-11-4-0/32.htmlconceptid

 

Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) Attack

 

http://www.f5.com/glossary/distributed-denial-of-service-attack/

 

Building a resilient, secure DNS infrastructure.

 

https://devcentral.f5.com/articles/building-a-resilient-secure-dns-infrastructure

 

DNS Express

 

For now, it only works with BIND. The same goes for DNSSEC.

 

You can learn more about it here:

 

https://devcentral.f5.com/articles/v11-dns-express-ndash-part-1