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Re: Pubstro rash

Subject: Re: Pubstro rash
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 19:07:25 -0500
Alexandre Skyrme wrote:
Greetings David,

Just a thought about your third comment...

As far as I'm concerned DNS just uses 53/TCP to do zone transfers. In case
your workstations are on a different network than your DNS servers it should
probably be safe to block incoming TCP connections to that network on such
port.

Tipically zone transfers would only be used by secondary servers to update
their own zones from its primary server.

RFC1035 allows 512 bytes for a DNS response (53) but they may now be longer, according to RFC2671 and others. If the DNS query fails or is "truncated", the query may be repeated over TCP.


So, 53/tcp is NOT just for zone transfers.

Jeff

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