[Pdns-users] Alphabetic Case support (?)

[Aki Tuomi]

Hi!

Please file a feature request at https://github.com/PowerDNS/pdns/issues
so this might happen.

Aki

On Sat, Oct 10, 2015 at 05:55:49PM +0100, Federico Olivieri wrote:
> 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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