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Every day, all the time we all use DNS to look up names and IPs on the Internet - ie, when you put bbc.co.uk in your browser, your computer needs to look up the IP address of the BBC's web server. To do this it will use DNS. The DNS server will respond back to your computer with the information.
 
 
This is often referred to as 'DNS Amplification Attacks'.
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=What if I run DNS servers on purpose?=