Whenever a DNS server returns a response of over 512 bytes it will set
the Truncation bit to tell the requesting server to reissue the same
query over a Virtual Circuit (TCP connection). This is normally seen
with requests for web server information for large server farms. If you
block TCP/53 to your DNS server you *MAY* not experience any problems,
but the problems will likely occur on the requesting side of someone
seeking your information. If you do not have a lot of systems with the
same name on multiple IP addresses or multiple CNAMES or a large mail
server farm you *MAY* come out okay. Just keep in mind that your DNS
system will not be functioning the way it *should* be... but then we
wouldn't have a need for security professionals if everything did what
it *should*...
You can limit your exposure by reducing who can perform zone transfers
via the allow-transfer option and use the query-source option to control
the port used for your outgoing queries. Coupled with router/firewall
ACLs you can serious limit the TCP connections to your DNS server.
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DNS ACL ? |
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Date: |
Fri, 11 Nov 2005 08:35:06 -0500 |
Hello All,
I need a sanity check regarding DNS ACLs. For external facing DNS servers
you need to allow only udp/53 inbound, correct? I know tcp/53 is used for
zone transfers and requests/replies greater than a certain size, but they
shouldn't typically happen for general dns queries correct?
Thanks in advance!
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