rfc-4074

Common Misbehavior Against DNS Queries for IPv6 Addresses

Y. Morishita, T. Jinmei
date2005-06 streamIETF areaops wgdnsop statusINFORMATIONAL pages6 canonicalhttps://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4074 doi10.17487/RFC4074
There is some known misbehavior of DNS authoritative servers when they are queried for AAAA resource records. Such behavior can block IPv4 communication that should actually be available, cause a significant delay in name resolution, or even make a denial of service attack. This memo describes details of known cases and discusses their effects. This memo provides information for the Internet community.