On Sep 15, 2014, at 12:52 PM, Tony Finch <d...@dotat.at> wrote:

> Franck Martin <fmar...@linkedin.com> wrote:
>> 
>> What is the recommended setup for EDNS?
>> -limit size to <1500? on both IPv4 and IPv6?
> 
> Yes, on some if not all of your authority servers. That is, you need to
> limit the size of response that you send (max-udp-size in BIND terms).
> (Don't get confused with your advertized EDNS buffer size which is for
> receiving responses, mainly on recursive servers.)
> 
> This improves your interoperability with resolvers at other sites that
> have broken networks which drop fragmented packets.
> 
> https://dnssec.surfnet.nl/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Recommendations-for-dealing-with-fragmentation-in-DNS-v3.pdf
> https://www.usenix.org/sites/default/files/conference/protected-files/vanrisjwik_lisa12_slides.pdf
> 

I’m looking more on the resolvers side as these may not be dedicated machines 
for named, like an authoritative server would be. So allowing fragmented 
packets to them to support EDNS >1280 responses without limiting the advertised 
EDNS buffer size may leave the box vulnerable to attacks (and which ones)?

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