[dns-operations] Big junk responses, Sierra Leone (.sl) TLD

John Levine johnl at taugh.com
Mon Feb 24 21:37:38 UTC 2025


According to Stephane Bortzmeyer via dns-operations <bortzmeyer at nic.fr>:
>Which is probably not so useful for reflection attacks since very few
>name servers will serve this size over UDP.
>
>Note that oracle.com is 3458 just with TXT QNAME.

That's nothing, stanford.edu TXT is 4159 or 4267 with DNSSEC.  You'd think they'd
know better.

I agree that queries that return large responses are a fact of life.

R's,
John

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