[dns-operations] Weird TXT record

[Dobbins, Roland]

On Jun 22, 2011, at 3:08 AM, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:

> Any public numbers about the relative importance of "DNSSEC query on a signed domain" vs. "a big TXT", in amplification attacks?

I don't have a validated set of stats, but have run into this anecdotally in the wild, with ~1.3KB DNSSEC responses as the blunt instrument.

> When you say "DNSSEC deployment has made it far easier", do you refer to a theoretical analysis or to a real phenomenon seen in the wild


I've run into it in the wild - it's mentioned on p. 54 of the Arbor 2010 WISR:

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Sixty-nine percent of respondents indicated they do not believe that drastically increased DNS response sizes would present a new and even more easily abused vector for DNS reflection/amplification attacks (Figure 91). Interestingly, just after this report’s survey was completed and opened for respondents to participate, Arbor observed several instances of DNSSEC-enabled reflection/amplification attacks taking place in several geographies simultaneously.

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