Re: Dropping external recursive requests

2008-12-03 Thread Chris Buxton
That ought to work, and work well. This will not impact outside name servers that query your name server, because they send iterative queries. If they're sending recursive queries, they're abusing your server. I can't see any problems with this approach. If you have authoritative data in the

Re: Dropping external recursive requests

2008-12-03 Thread Mark Andrews
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] t, Alberto Colosi/SI/RM/GSI/it writes: why not? beter handled by isc and done in a clean way then 1.000.000 of dirty ways as these ;) Please go read RFC 5358. No where in there does it say to drop responses. If we though that dropping queries was

Re: Dropping external recursive requests

2008-12-03 Thread john
On Dec 3, 6:26 pm, Mark Andrews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If it is a forged packet it should be dropped regardless of the setting of RD. True, however not something that's easily determined from a distance. Ideally ingress filtering would render this a non-issue, however there obviously holes