Patent ID: 8898773

Claim:
A method for making an applianced domain name server, the method comprising: forming a software installation package for the domain name server; and making the appplianced domain name server by installing the software installation package in a server, wherein the software installation package comprises: a hardened operating system; a securely pre-configured domain name server software; a management interface; a local response logic for responding to attack attempts from one or more blacklisted client computers; a local attack detection logic, wherein the attack detection logic performs one or more analyses, each of which being based on a plurality of IP packets from an individual client computer, based on a predetermined set of attack detection rules, wherein, if at least some of the analyses, which are based on the plurality of IP packets from the individual client computer, identify the individual client computer as an attacking client computer, the local attack detection logic blacklists the individual client computer as an attacking client computer thereby indicating that IP traffic from the individual client computer should be blocked.