Re: Open Resolver Problems

[Jack Bates <jbates () brightok net>]

On 3/27/2013 8:47 AM, William Herrin wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 10:07 PM, Tom Paseka <tom () cloudflare com> wrote:
> > Authoritative DNS servers need to implement rate limiting. (a client
> > shouldn't query you twice for the same thing within its TTL).
> Right now that's a complaint for the mainstream software authors, not
> for the system operators. When the version of Bind in Debian Stable
> implements this feature, I'll surely turn it on.

Tracking the clients would be a huge dataset and be especially 
complicated in clusters. They'd be better off at detecting actual attack 
vectors rather than rate limiting. However, there are enough nodes out 
there to easily spread a trickle to avoid individual detections. You 
don't want to DOS your amplifier, after all. It also wouldn't be hard to 
rotate through different requests to defeat the "rate limits".


Jack