Details

Limiting the number of concurrent sessions reduces the risk of Denial of Service (DoS) to the DNS implementation.

Name servers do not have direct user connections but accept client connections for queries. Original restriction on client connections should be high enough to prevent a self-imposed denial of service, after which the connections are monitored and fine-tuned to best meet the organization’s specific requirements.

Solution

Edit the ‘named.conf’ file.

Add the ‘transfers-per-ns’ sub statement to the ‘options’ statement block.

The value of the ‘transfers-per-ns’ option can be increased to a value greater than two based on organizational requirements needed to support DNS operations.

Restart the BIND 9.x process.

Supportive Information

The following resource is also helpful.

• https://dl.dod.cyber.mil/wp-content/uploads/stigs/zip/U_BIND_9-x_V2R2_STIG.ziphttps://dl.dod.cyber.mil/wp-content/uploads/stigs/zip/U_BIND_9-x_V2R2_STIG.zip

This security hardening control applies to the following category of controls within NIST 800-53: Access Control.This control applies to the following type of system Unix.

References

• 800-53|AC-10
• CAT|II
• CCI|CCI-000054
• Rule-ID|SV-207549r612253_rule
• STIG-ID|BIND-9X-001050
• STIG-Legacy|SV-87021
• STIG-Legacy|V-72397
• Vuln-ID|V-207549

Source

• Tenable.com/audits