Re: [DNSOP] comments on draft-ietf-dnsop-serve-stale-03

Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> Tue, 26 March 2019 11:47 UTC

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Subject: Re: [DNSOP] comments on draft-ietf-dnsop-serve-stale-03
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Dave Lawrence <tale@dd.org> wrote:
> Ray Bellis writes:
> > Serve stael must not become a vector whereby malware can keep its C&C
> > systems artificially alive even if the parent has removed the C&C domain
> > name.
>
> I wholeheartedly agree with this ideal, and am very open to
> considering text improvements.

I think the suggested max stale timer of 7 days is excessive. The aim is
to cope with an outage, so I think 1 day is much more reasonable (though I
have configured my servers with a 1 hour limit).

Tony.
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