Re: .dk-TLD-problems

"Richard J. Sexton" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.djbdns
Message-ID <[email protected]>
At 10:49 PM 9/9/2009 -0700, Ask Bjørn Hansen wrote:
>
>On Sep 9, 2009, at 11:41, Tommy Mogensen wrote:
>
>> The way tinydns works if asked for a domain not hosted on the server,
>> is just not answering and the client has to time out. The principle
>> is - if you ask a tinydns server for a domain not delegated to it,
>
>Yeah, exactly.   Responding with a large packet of root referrals is  
>just making it Very Easy to use your server in an amplification attack.

Ectuallu I like the idea of returning the pointer to one root sevrer
rather than the NS RR set of all of them.


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