Best practice on TCP replies for ANY queries

Wed Dec 11 19:17:33 UTC 2013

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

On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 4:25 PM, Anurag Bhatia <me at anuragbhatia.com> wrote:
> Hi ML
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> Yeah I can understand. Even DNSSEC will have issues with it which makes me
> worry about rule even today.
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> On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 11:49 PM, ML <ml at kenweb.org> wrote:
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>> On 12/11/2013 1:06 PM, Anurag Bhatia wrote:
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>> > 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?
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>> 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.
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>> No one can predict the future of what will constitute legitimate DNS
>> traffic.
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