[Pdns-users] Alphabetic Case support (?)

[Federico Olivieri]

Hi guys!

Any feedback from that? By the way...Well done in Berlin!!!

2015-10-09 13:59 GMT+01:00 Federico Olivieri <lvrfrc87 at gmail.com>:

> Hi all,
>
> I was running a DNS test (from https://www.grc.com/dns/dns.htm) on my DNS
> server. From the result I could see the "Alphabetic Case" test. I din't
> know about this feature and I googoled. That is what the website says:
>
>
>    - *Alphabetic Case:*
>    The DNS system is not sensitive to alphabetic case, so the domain “
>    WWW.GRC.COM” is identical to “www.grc.com”. DNS is designed to *ignore
>    but preserve* the alphabetic case used in queries and replies. This
>    creates an opportunity for a DNS resolver to add additional unknown bits of
>    “entropy” to its queries by randomly changing the case of any alphabetic
>    characters in the queried domain name. When replies are received, only the
>    valid replying nameserver that received the mixed-case query could know the
>    proper case for its reply. No spoofing server would know. This would give a
>    clever resolver another way to reject spoofed replies. We know of no
>    nameservers that are deliberately mixing case in this way, but through this
>    test we are helping you to keep your eye out for any.
>
> I had a look to PDNS website but I didn't find any relevant information to
> understand if pdns support this feature (from the test result seems not
> supported)
>
> Do you have extra info about that?
>
> Thanks
>
> Federico
>
>
>
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