[dns-operations] Root-servers returning TC=1 after 5 NXDOMAINS

Tony Finch dot at dotat.at
Wed Feb 11 16:23:46 UTC 2015


Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman at vpnc.org> wrote:
>
> It sounds like a bad configuration for RRL at f-root, given the replies
> below that they are unique queries (which would make sense from a
> caching resolver).

I don't think it is that bad. If you fail to ratelimit because all the
queries are different then attackers have a trivial bypass.

Tony.
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