IPv6 rDNS
Crist Clark
Crist.Clark at globalstar.com
Wed Nov 3 23:02:13 UTC 2010
>>> On 11/3/2010 at 1:10 PM, Lamar Owen <lowen at pari.edu> wrote:
> On Tuesday, November 02, 2010 02:21:14 pm Sven Olaf Kamphuis wrote:
>> getting rid of bind has various other advantages, such as no longer
>> needing tcp to transfer "zone files" (Retarded concept to say the least)
>> so there are no more "tcp issues" related to anycasting your authorative
>> dns servers, as you can simply have them talk to your central database
>> over their bgp session ip, which isn't anycasted, no more port 53/tcp
>> therefore! yay, good riddance!
>
> Performing zone transfers is not the only reason for 53/tcp; it can also be
> needed for long (>512 byte) query responses. Thanks to the one-two punch of
> DNSSEC and IPv6, the probability of a DNS reponse needing TCP on port 53 is
> much greater now.
That's mitigated by the fact EDNS0 is required for DNSSEC
allowing for larger queries to go over UDP.
Still, blocking 53/tcp is perhaps second only to dropping all
incoming ICMP in the quest to be the most widely deployed and
severely broken thing done in the name of Internet security.
--
Crist Clark
Network Security Specialist, Information Systems
Globalstar
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