Best practice on TCP replies for ANY queries

Wed Dec 11 22:04:40 UTC 2013

https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-01000

On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 2:17 PM, Arturo Servin <arturo.servin at gmail.com>wrote:

> I think is better idea to rate-limit your responses rather than
> limiting the size of them.
>
> AFAIK, bind has a way to do it.
>
> .as
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> On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 4:25 PM, Anurag Bhatia <me at anuragbhatia.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi ML
> >
> >
> >
> > Yeah I can understand. Even DNSSEC will have issues with it which makes
> me
> > worry about rule even today.
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 11:49 PM, ML <ml at kenweb.org> wrote:
> >
> >> On 12/11/2013 1:06 PM, Anurag Bhatia wrote:
> >> >
> >> > I am sure I am not first person experiencing this issue. Curious to
> hear
> >> > how you are managing it. Also under what circumstances I can get a
> >> > legitimate TCP query on port 53 whose reply exceeds a basic limit of
> less
> >> > then 1000 bytes?
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >>
> >> I'm not a DNS guru so I don't have an exact answer.  However my gut
> >> feeling is that putting in a place a rule to drop or rate limit DNS
> >> replies greater than X bytes is probably going to come back to bite you
> >> in the future.
> >>
> >> No one can predict the future of what will constitute legitimate DNS
> >> traffic.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
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