Over the last six years, we’ve built the tooling, infrastructure and expertise to run a DNS network that handles our scale - we’ve answered a few million DNS queries in the few seconds since you started reading this. DNS is the backbone of the internet. Every email, website
A deep look at CVE-2015-5477 and how CloudFlare Virtual DNS customers are protected
Last week ISC published a patch for a critical remotely exploitable vulnerability in the BIND9 DNS server capable of causing a crash with a single packet. CC BY 2.0 image by Ralph Aversen The public summary tells us that a mistake in handling of queries for the TKEY type
Announcing Virtual DNS: DDoS Mitigation and Global Distribution for DNS Traffic
It’s 9am and CloudFlare has already mitigated three billion malicious requests for our customers today. Six out of every one hundred requests we see are malicious, and increasingly, more of those bad requests are targeting DNS nameservers. DNS is the phone book of the Internet and fundamental to the