Re: 2 forwarded messages...DNSEXT discussion of Day and Kaminsky

[email protected] (Paul Jarc)
Newsgroups gmane.network.djbdns
Organization What did you have in mind? A short, blunt, human pyramid?
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Michael Sierchio <[email protected]> wrote:
> Paul Jarc wrote:
>> qmerge + 200 identical attack queries ->
>>   dnscache chooses a single new port for a new outgoing query
>> 
>> no-qmerge + 1 attack query ->
>>   dnscache chooses a single new port for a new outgoing query
>> 
>> I don't see any significant difference between these cases - in
>> particular, they seem equally vulnerable to port guessing and to DOS.
>
> The difference is fairly simple -- the stock behavior is vulnerable
> to being flooded with a crafted query, pushing legitimate queries
> off the queue.  I think this was articulated in a lucid and cogent
> manner.

Right.  But Dean is saying that qmerge is more vulnerable in some
other way.  That's what I'm asking about.


paul
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