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megoustoday at 12:45 PM1 replyview on HN

Virtual private cloud services where you host the DNS server may also include DDoS protection.


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tzurytoday at 12:57 PM

May or may not. You open the UDP ports, you get flooded, they block all incoming traffic, and this way or another your assets are not resolvable.

One must distinguish between application layer attacks HTTP/S and UDP, cloud vendors won’t protect you implicitly for network layer attacks unless you purchased such service from them.

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