[Unbound-users] allowing cache queries but not doing recursion for "foreign" networks

Ondřej Surý ondrej at sury.org
Sun Feb 15 18:28:58 UTC 2009


>>> Cache snooping lets anyone see who you've been talking to, when you
>>> looked
>>> it up, and when the cache will expire.
>>
>> cache snooping can also facilitate amplification attacks, see RFC 5358.
>
>
> No, not without recursion enabled it can't.

Yes, it can. Just spoof query to something which is already in cache
(like root servers).

O.
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Ondřej Surý <ondrej at sury.org>



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