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Some stupid ideas

Some stupid ideas

Posted Aug 14, 2008 10:08 UTC (Thu) by NAR (subscriber, #1313)
In reply to: Some stupid ideas by njs
Parent article: Details of the DNS flaw revealed

I think this is a good idea. RFC 1035 states that "TTL is a 32 bit signed integer that specifies the time interval that the resource record may be cached", so this actually would not break the DNS specification.


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Some stupid ideas

Posted Aug 14, 2008 10:51 UTC (Thu) by rvfh (subscriber, #31018) [Link]

In this case, one could ask for each value (or only the ones under attack) twice:
- ask value, return to requester with short TTL (a few seconds)
- wait a bit
- ask value again, if matches use given TTL (or limit it to a few hours)

Anyway, it seems the solution is in the repetition, to decrease the probability of success of
the attack.

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