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by sajal83 4001 days ago
(monitoring tool author here) Agree. Makes sense. We should have run this test with RD bit unset.

But .. IIRC if RD is set when quering a non-recursive, it should respond normally with authoritative response Recursion Available (RA) flag unset. It does not mean it should drop the query totally.

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Dropping bad queries is often a DDoS countermeasure.