Well, some people consider 10k a good value for this: https://calomel.org/unbound_dns.html Not sure if this is actually too low. During some attacks, 5M was satisfying here, but I did not dig into thresholds deeper. Simulated attacks did not show a unique behaviour, and their real value is questionable in my point of view. What do you propose for the value? 1M or 100k? Best regards, Peter Müller > Do you have any reference for this? > > On Sun, 2018-08-19 at 20:08 +0200, Peter Müller wrote: >> By default, Unbound neither keeps track of the number of unwanted >> replies nor initiates countermeasures if they become too large (DNS >> cache poisoning). >> >> This sets the maximum number of tolerated unwanted replies to >> 5M, causing the cache to be flushed afterwards. (Upstream documentation >> recommends 10M as a threshold, but this turned out to be ineffective >> against attacks in the wild.) >> >> See https://nlnetlabs.nl/documentation/unbound/unbound.conf/ for >> details. >> >> Signed-off-by: Peter Müller >> --- >> config/unbound/unbound.conf | 3 +++ >> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) >> >> diff --git a/config/unbound/unbound.conf b/config/unbound/unbound.conf >> index 3f724d8f7..fa2ca3fd4 100644 >> --- a/config/unbound/unbound.conf >> +++ b/config/unbound/unbound.conf >> @@ -61,6 +61,9 @@ server: >> harden-algo-downgrade: no >> use-caps-for-id: no >> >> + # Harden against DNS cache poisoning >> + unwanted-reply-threshold: 5000000 >> + >> # Listen on all interfaces >> interface-automatic: yes >> interface: 0.0.0.0 > -- Microsoft DNS service terminates abnormally when it recieves a response to a DNS query that was never made. Fix Information: Run your DNS service on a different platform. -- bugtraq