Re: djbdns/dnscache poisoning weakness

Matthew Dempsky <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.djbdns
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Kevin Day <[email protected]> wrote:
> 1) Dnscache treats "SOA" requests as uncacheable.

It's worth noting that dnscache from djbdns-1.05 also does not cache
negative CNAME responses.  E.g., it will always forward CNAME queries
for "google.com" because that name does not have a CNAME record.
Jonathan de Boyne Pollard pointed this out at
http://homepages.tesco.net/J.deBoynePollard/FGA/djbdns-problems.html#dnscache-cname-handling.
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