Aaron Campbell wrote:
> Here is a thought, but I will defer to the protocol experts on plausibility.  
> The resolver knows the size of each DNS message it parses.  What if it didn't 
> trust glue records contained within large (i.e., > 1400 bytes or so) 
> responses?  In these cases, the resolver sends a separate query to resolve 
> the dangling authority NS records.  This introduces overhead, but only for 
> large replies.  It also makes a few assumptions, namely that the 
> fragmentation point is something around 1500 bytes (and not something lower), 
> and that the attack is only practical against the glue records, not the 
> authority section.  May be able to play games with name compression there 
> though… perhaps it is as least worth discussing as an additional barrier.

this sounds vaguely similar to unbound's "harden-referral-path" option,
though it applies to all lookups.

-- 
Robert Edmonds
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