RFC 7873 · PROPOSED STANDARD · 2016

Domain Name System Cookies

Overview

RFC 7873, “Domain Name System Cookies”, is a Proposed Standard document published in May 2016 by D. Eastlake 3rd, M. Andrews. It has since been updated by RFC 9018. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.

Abstract

DNS Cookies are a lightweight DNS transaction security mechanism that provides limited protection to DNS servers and clients against a variety of increasingly common denial-of-service and amplification/ forgery or cache poisoning attacks by off-path attackers. DNS Cookies are tolerant of NAT, NAT-PT (Network Address Translation - Protocol Translation), and anycast and can be incrementally deployed. (Since DNS Cookies are only returned to the IP address from which they were originally received, they cannot be used to generally track Internet users.)

Abstract as published in the RFC, via rfc-editor.org.

What “Proposed Standard” means

An entry-level standards-track specification: stable, peer-reviewed and a solid basis for implementation, though it may still evolve before becoming an Internet Standard.

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Relationships to other RFCs
Updated by
RFC 9018
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