Re: DNS cache poisoning attacks -- are they real?

[Chris Brenton <cbrenton () chrisbrenton org>]

On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 05:37, Simon Waters wrote:
> The answers from a recursive servers won't be marked authoritative (AA bit not 
> set), and so correct behaviour is to discard (BIND will log a lame server 
> message as well by default) these records.
>
> If your recursive resolver doesn't discard these records, suggest you get one 
> that works ;)

In a perfect world, this might be a viable solution. The problem is
there are far too many legitimate but "broken" name servers out there.
On an average day I log well over 100 lame servers. If I broke this
functionality, my helpdesk would get flooded pretty quickly with angry
users.

HTH,
Chris