[rfc-dist] RFC 5452 on Measures for Making DNS More Resilient against Forged Answers

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        RFC 5452

        Title:      Measures for Making DNS More 
                    Resilient against Forged Answers 
        Author:     A. Hubert, R. van Mook
        Status:     Standards Track
        Date:       January 2009
        Mailbox:    bert.hubert at netherlabs.nl, 
                    remco at eu.equinix.com
        Pages:      18
        Characters: 37432
        Updates:    RFC2181

        I-D Tag:    draft-ietf-dnsext-forgery-resilience-10.txt

        URL:        http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5452.txt

The current Internet climate poses serious threats to the Domain Name
System.  In the interim period before the DNS protocol can be secured
more fully, measures can already be taken to harden the DNS to make
'spoofing' a recursing nameserver many orders of magnitude harder.

Even a cryptographically secured DNS benefits from having the ability
to discard bogus responses quickly, as this potentially saves large
amounts of computation.

By describing certain behavior that has previously not been
standardized, this document sets out how to make the DNS more
resilient against accepting incorrect responses.  This document
updates RFC 2181.  [STANDARDS TRACK]

This document is a product of the DNS Extensions Working Group of the IETF.

This is now a Proposed Standard Protocol.

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