Block DNS

Attack

Blocks access to DNS servers

Targets:

Hosts

Install now

Block DNS

Blocks access to DNS servers

Attack

Targets:

Hosts

Install now

Block DNS

Attack

Blocks access to DNS servers

Targets:

Hosts

Install now

Block DNS

Blocks access to DNS servers

Attack

Targets:

Hosts

Install now

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Container Network DNS attack

Introduction

Blocks access to DNS servers for a specific duration.

Prerequisites

If you are not using our container images for the extension, you need install the tc (from the iproute2 package) tool to use the attack.

Use Cases

Understand how your services behave under dns outages or failures
Simulate a DDoS attack on your DNS servers
Maintenance of the authoritative name servers
Simulate Bad configuration of DNS servers

Parameters

Parameter	Description	Default
Duration	How long should the DNS traffic be blocked?	30s
DNS Port	DNS port number	53

Statistics

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Block Traffic

Drops network traffic (incoming and outgoing)

Attack

Hosts

Delay Traffic

Inject latency into network traffic.

Attack

Hosts

Drop Outgoing Traffic

Cause packet loss for outgoing network traffic (egress).

Attack

Hosts

Fill Disk

Fill available disk space

Attack

Hosts

Limit Bandwidth

Reduce the available network bandwidth.

Attack

Hosts

Package Corruption

Inject corrupt packets by introducing single bit error at a random offset into network traffic.

Attack

Hosts

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Block DNS

Block DNS

Block DNS

Block DNS

Prerequisites

Use Cases

Links

Parameters

Block Traffic

Delay Traffic

Drop Outgoing Traffic

Fill Disk

Limit Bandwidth

Package Corruption