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RFC 4074: Common Misbehavior Against DNS Queries for IPv6 Addresses

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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.

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Document ID
RFC4074
Published
June 2005
Authors
Y. Morishita; T. Jinmei
Status
INFORMATIONAL
Stream
IETF
Area
ops
Pages
6
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