cis-bind-v100-9-5

DevOps & Security

Response Rate Limiting and DDOS Mitigation (Automated)

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CIS 9.5 — Response Rate Limiting and DDOS Mitigation

Profile Applicability

Authoritative Name Server Level 1

Description

Responses to excessive, nearly identical UDP requests can be controlled by configuring a response rate-limit clause in an options or view statement. At this time, Response Rate Limiting is only recommended for authoritative servers.

Rationale

The response rate limiting mechanism keeps an authoritative name server from being effectively used to amplify reflected distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. Short truncated responses will be sent when the rate-limited is exceeded. Legitimate non-spoofed clients will react to a dropped or truncated response by retrying with UDP or with TCP respectively. While the truncated or dropped responses to spoofed requests intended will greatly diminished the effectiveness of the attack.

Impact

Not specified.

Audit Procedure

To determine if the recommended state is implemented, check that the authoritative name server configuration file has an options statement with a rate-limit clause that sets the responses-per-second to a value of 5 or less. Keep in mind, the responses per second value only limits the responses to nearly identical requests from the same IP address.

Remediation

To implement the recommended state, add or update a rate-limit clause in the server's options statement. Add a responses-per-second value of 5 or less, similar to the example below.

options {
 . . .
    rate-limit {
        // Limit Response to Rapid Identical Queries for DDOS mitigation
        responses-per-second 5;
    . . .
};

Default Value

Default value is 0 or no rate limit.

References

CIS Controls

Controls Version	Control	IG 1	IG 2	IG 3
v7	8 Malware Defenses	Y	Y	Y

MITRE ATT&CK Mappings

Tactic	Technique
Impact	T1498.002 Reflection Amplification

Profile

Level 1 - Authoritative Name Server