From owner-freebsd-security Wed Jul 18 7:53: 3 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mgw1.MEIway.com (mgw1.meiway.com [212.73.210.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02B3837B405 for ; Wed, 18 Jul 2001 07:53:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from LConrad@Go2France.com) Received: from mail.Go2France.com (ms1.meiway.com [212.73.210.73]) by mgw1.MEIway.com (Postfix Relay Hub) with ESMTP id F074D16B37 for ; Wed, 18 Jul 2001 16:52:58 +0200 (CEST) Received: from IBM-HIRXKN66F0W.Go2France.com [195.115.185.184] by mail.Go2France.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-6.06) id A4E52B66043C; Wed, 18 Jul 2001 17:01:57 +0200 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20010718165108.02e52e48@mail.Go2France.com> X-Sender: LConrad@Go2France.com@mail.Go2France.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 16:53:45 +0200 To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org From: Len Conrad Subject: Re: named & zone transfers In-Reply-To: <200107181441.f6IEfFH65804@bunrab.catwhisker.org> References: <20010718223718.A14766-100000@icmp.dhs.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >Although I'd be very hard-pressed to consider this a "security" issue >(or a FreeBSD one) unrestricted zone transfers ( with no resource limits ) allows malicious resource exhaustion, which I consider a security breach. Len http://MenAndMice.com/DNS-training http://BIND8NT.MEIway.com : ISC BIND 8.2.4 for NT4 & W2K http://IMGate.MEIway.com : Build free, hi-perf, anti-abuse mail gateways To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message