In addition, the default setting for the automatic mitigation ensures that it will only be deployed if upstream authoritative nameservers are determined to be unresponsive (and likely overloaded by an attack). This means that, as long as your authoritative nameservers can handle the traffic during a random prefix attack, Cloudflare will not actively block queries in order to avoid false positives. This setting is called `"only_when_upstream_unhealthy"` and is always true if not explicitly disabled during [Setup](/dns/dns-firewall/random-prefix-attacks/setup/).
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