Public DNS - recursion no - Access to the Internet

[Mark Andrews]

> In article <erclul$2sgj$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
>  Jarek Buczy?ski <jaro80 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Threat's growing :) 
> > Below is next quote:
> > 
> > "If you use multiple nameserver directives, don't use the loopback address!
> > There's a bug in some Berkeley-derived TCP/IP implementations that can cause
> > problems with BIND if the local nameserver is down. The resolver's connected
> > datagram socket won't rebind to a new local address if the local nameserver
> > isn't running, and consequently the resolver sends query packets to the
> > fallback remote nameservers with a source address of 127.0.0.1. When the
> > remote nameservers try to reply, they end up sending the reply packets to
> > themselves."
> 
> I think that bug was fixed at least a decade ago, so it's probably not 
> an important caveat.

	And it is detectable at the application layer.
 
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