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["Alex M (Coyo)" <coyo AT darkdna.net>]

On 06/11/2013 01:17 AM, Julian DeMarchi wrote:
> On 06/11/2013 04:13 PM, Quinn Wood wrote:
> > Perhaps instead of making claims that a zone won't be used for
> > anything than attacks backed on its name, folks should perform
> > heuristics checks on, I don't know, the actual zone.
> >
> > Any Tom, Dick, or Harry can register stopddos.est and pop the same
> > records into it.
>   dig ddostheinter.net ANY
>
> ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 8290
>
> This forces TCP.
>
> ]$ dig ddostheinter.net +short | wc -l
> 511
>
> Why would someone have 511 A records for @....

What would be the point of forcing a dns query to use TCP? What would an 
adversary gain?

What is a 511 record?