> On Jan 15, 2018, at 4:39 PM, Andrew Sullivan <a...@anvilwalrusden.com> wrote:
> 
> Some people regard upward referrals as a sign
>      of a misconfiguration or error.

Perhaps worth also noting that some people consider upward referrals harmful 
because they enable amplification attacks?

Of course there are more effective amplification-type responses, but 
nonetheless the size of the referral is larger than the size of the query and 
the size of a REFUSED.

DW

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