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Re: DNS cache poisoning attacks -- are they real?
- From: Chris Brenton
- Date: Tue Mar 29 10:40:15 2005
On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 05:37, Simon Waters wrote:
>
> The answers from a recursive servers won't be marked authoritative (AA bit not
> set), and so correct behaviour is to discard (BIND will log a lame server
> message as well by default) these records.
>
> If your recursive resolver doesn't discard these records, suggest you get one
> that works ;)
In a perfect world, this might be a viable solution. The problem is
there are far too many legitimate but "broken" name servers out there.
On an average day I log well over 100 lame servers. If I broke this
functionality, my helpdesk would get flooded pretty quickly with angry
users.
HTH,
Chris
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