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Best practice on TCP replies for ANY queries
- Subject: Best practice on TCP replies for ANY queries
- From: dot at dotat.at (Tony Finch)
- Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 13:29:45 +0000
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Anurag Bhatia <me at anuragbhatia.com> wrote:
>
> Now I see presence of some (legitimate) DNS forwarders and hence I don't
> wish to limit queries.
You are going to have to change your mind about this one. Open recursive
resolvers are a really bad idea, unless you can afford a lot of time and
cleverness to manage the abuse. Get your users to choose a more
appropriate name server, and restrict your name server to your local
networks.
Tony.
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