I recently sent an email to bugtraq@securityfocus.com, which
was approved after being examined by the moderator.
Here is the risk: Since I made the mistake of using an e-mail address from a
small domain that I manage, my DNS server immediately got killed by the tens
of thousands of mail servers trying to resolve my domain name.(which of
course was not in anyones cache; my domain is pretty much unknown.)
I saw all this traffic and didn't immediately recognize what it was. I was
scared, but a little bit of investigation provided an answer.
After an hour and my cable modem rebooting a few times from the sheer load,
everything seemed to settle down, but I'll tell you, watching the lights on
that modem flash without yet understanding what was happening sure scared
me. [Paul Hessels via risks-digest Volume 21, Issue 32]
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