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Re: AW: Odd policy question.

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Fri Jan 13 17:14:32 2006

From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 12:09:51 -1000
To: "David W. Hankins" <David_Hankins@isc.org>
Cc: John van Oppen <john@vanoppen.com>, nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


> Well, RFC2010 section 2.12 hints at cache pollution attacks, and that's
> been discussed already.  Note that I can't seem to find the same claim
> in RFC2870, which obsoletes 2010 (and the direction against recursive
> service is still there).

despite others saying that 2870 should apply to servers other
than root servers, i do not support that.  and that leaves
aside that some root servers do not follow it very well.

randy


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