Re: QNAME minimisation question

Petr Špaček <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.dns.bind9.user
Message-ID <00438ea8-3cdc-4912-8f9e-cb395d00bc77__33593.2878473372$1748949212$gmane$org@isc.org>
On 6/3/25 12:06, Petr Špaček wrote:
> On 6/3/25 11:29, Nick Tait wrote:
>> On 02/06/2025 23:30, Petr Špaček wrote:
>>> In short, with an empty cache, BIND will exceed pre-configured limit 
>>> on number of queries it can do. This is protection from various 
>>> attacks which misuse DNS to attack itself.
>>
>> Thanks for the explanation!
>>
>> This particular recursive query doesn't seem especially out-of-the- 
>> ordinary to me, in terms of the number of name servers returned for 
>> each authoritative zone, so it was a little surprising to me that it 
>> would hit the default limit setting. However when I took a closer look 
>> at the combined impact that QNAME minimisation and DNSSEC and 
>> IPv4+IPv6 has on the number of queries it is actually not so 
>> surprising after all...

I want to underline this happens with totally empty cache. If you try, 
get SERVFAIL (limits exceeded), and try again in 5 seconds, you will get 
an answer.

As for number of serves involved and all that... well ... have a look at 
this graph:
https://trans-trust.verisignlabs.com/?z=195.5.90.45.in-addr.arpa.

It's not exactly trivial tree to walk through if you don't know where 
you are going and have max. 50 steps available. (BTW the chart does not 
not show A/AAAA queries for NS names, only server names involved.)

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Petr Špaček
Internet Systems Consortium
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