From the CERT.be website : Open DNS resolvers are frequently being abused to conduct efficient DDoS attacks towards websites, infrastructure and services..
You can detect open resolvers on your network with a vulnerability information management tool (for example Qualys), via the Open Resolver Project or manually with an nmap command.
Keeping track of the different output files becomes more difficult if you have to do this often. I wrote a script that imports the nmap … Read more.