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Long responses may be a security issue

Open bortzmeyer opened this issue 1 year ago • 0 comments

Since some responses (for instance weather or dictionary) are way larger than the queries, and since dns.toys accepts requests over UDP, it may be used for reflection attacks with amplification. I don't think it is currently a deadly risk for the Internet :-) but may be some rate-limiter would be a good idea.

bortzmeyer avatar Sep 26 '22 12:09 bortzmeyer