On Jan 3, 2014, at 4:15 PM, Eugeniu Patrascu <[email protected]> wrote:

> Maybe I should try this again: what I said was that on the recursive 
> resolvers dedicated for your clients you can add an extra layer of protection 
> in terms of dropping fake responses targeted at those servers by the means of 
> a local firewall setup on each box, not on a gateway like box.

I understand; this is a Very Bad Idea, for the reasons mentioned previously.

> What I'm arguing against is the idea of rate limiting a service just because 
> it might be attacked and have your customers play the lottery with their 
> queries and try again if their packets are lost due to rate limiting.

RRL is intended for authoritative servers, absolutely.  There are other 
mechanisms which can be used to protect recursive servers from abuse from the 
customer side, starting with S/RTBH.

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