Hello Oguz,

On Jun 5, 2012, at 11:52 , Oguz Yilmaz wrote:

> UDP DNS is open to spoofing. Setting TC bit and requesting TCP query
> may be a mechanism for client identity authenticity. However, what do
> you think about interoperability of clients when they get a re-query
> request through TC bit?


Saying UDP DNS is open to spoofing is a bit harsh - ID and port should not be 
very predictable in most situations, and this should help.

Additionally, as long as your plan is to send UDP TC packets so that people 
will fall back to TCP, the spoofer is just fighting against your TC packet 
instead of fighting against your UDP-with-content response. I'm not sure this 
would add any security.

And on a sidenote, it is not uncommon for cheap home routers to not support TCP 
DNS at all. My Fritz!Box at home did not support TCP DNS until a month ago, for 
example.

Kind regards,
-- 
Peter van Dijk
Netherlabs Computer Consulting BV - http://www.netherlabs.nl/

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