On Wed, Apr 20, 2022 at 8:39 AM William Herrin <b...@herrin.us> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 20, 2022 at 8:00 AM Antonia Affinito 
> <antoniaaffinit...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I noticed that, in case of a malicious domain name, some local resolvers 
>> send an NXDOMAIN and others a courtesy page address. Do you know if the 
>> resolvers (for example TIM, Wind or Fastweb) can return an NXDomain in order 
>> to protect their clients?
>
> From a network engineering perspective, any resolver that responds to an 
> authoritative NXDOMAIN by generating an address for a courtesy page -is- the 
> malicious actor. Doubly so if they lie about the DNSSEC status in the 
> response.

Nevermind; I misunderstood your question. The domain name exists but
the resolver has blocked it. How should the resolver alter its
response: NXDOMAIN or the IP address of a courtesy web page explaining
the block.

Regards,
Bill Herrin


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