Re: [mailop] The 'DNS only requires UDP' misconception vs SPF et al -- historical reasons?

2020-09-30 Thread Ángel via mailop
On 2020-09-30 at 11:08 +0200, Peter N. M. Hansteen via mailop wrote: > Back in the day I suppose you could get a sort of working setup with > UDP-only DNS, but this has me wondering, is there a quasi-rational > historical reason for blocking 53/TCP? I'd say that pretty much nothing broke back in

Re: [mailop] The 'DNS only requires UDP' misconception vs SPF et al -- historical reasons?

2020-09-30 Thread A. Schulze via mailop
Am 30.09.2020 um 11:08 schrieb Peter N. M. Hansteen via mailop: is there a quasi-rational historical reason for blocking 53/TCP? see https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7766#section-1 ... Andreas ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://list.mai

Re: [mailop] The 'DNS only requires UDP' misconception vs SPF et al -- historical reasons?

2020-09-30 Thread Chris via mailop
On 2020-09-30 10:25, Tim Bray via mailop wrote: Blocking TCP a way to block zone transfers, but a rubbish one. It may also be seen as a method by which to reduce the impact of DNS amplification attacks. But also a poor one. I'd suggest they probably just have a default deny policy and didn

Re: [mailop] The 'DNS only requires UDP' misconception vs SPF et al -- historical reasons?

2020-09-30 Thread Tim Bray via mailop
On 30/09/2020 10:08, Peter N. M. Hansteen via mailop wrote: Back in the day I suppose you could get a sort of working setup with UDP-only DNS, but this has me wondering, is there a quasi-rational historical reason for blocking 53/TCP? As in, was there at some point in time a 'ping of death'-like

[mailop] The 'DNS only requires UDP' misconception vs SPF et al -- historical reasons?

2020-09-30 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen via mailop
I came across a network that I need to communicate with where (not unlike the one in https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2018/02/a-life-lesson-in-mishandling-smtp.html) they perform the checks for SPF, DKIM and so forth in the wrong places in addition to on ingress. Studying the headers at the receiving en