[dns-operations] First experiments with DNS dampening to fight amplification attacks

Tony Finch dot at dotat.at
Fri Sep 28 14:41:35 UTC 2012


Mark Andrews <marka at isc.org> wrote:
>
> Server cookies are the way to go though I would add timestamps so
> that server secrets don't need to be changed.  The time stamp would
> have to be within X seconds of the servers current concept of time
> or it will be treated as a bad cookie.  The time would be concatenated
> to the rest of the data to be hashed.

Are you referring to this?
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-eastlake-dnsext-cookies

Tony.
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