Please fix significant AAAA query misbehaviour in TP-Link DDNS service

Please fix significant AAAA query misbehaviour in TP-Link DDNS service

Please fix significant AAAA query misbehaviour in TP-Link DDNS service
Please fix significant AAAA query misbehaviour in TP-Link DDNS service
2024-11-05 15:38:21 - last edited 2024-11-07 02:10:03
Tags: #DDNS
Model: Archer AX10  
Hardware Version: V1
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Hello.

 

I think I've found a serious flaw in TP-Link DDNS service. Responses of authoritive DNS servers (ns1.tplinkdns.com and ns2.tplinkdns.com) for *.tplinkdns.com zone are incorrect in case of AAAA (IPv6) queries. I know that TP-link DDNS lacks of support for IPv6 and will not ask for adding it. But currently AAAA query to any domain in *.tplinkdns.com zone returns NXDOMAIN instead of NOERROR+NODATA. NXDOMAIN should be returned only and only if there is no domain registered at all. Returning NXDOMAIN in response to AAAA queries for registered domains violates RFC4074, section-4.2 and RFC6147, section-5.1.2. It can lead to DNS cache poisoning (especially on Windows PCs connected to ISP directly, without router), preventing further connections to TP-Link DDNS hosts.

 

Example:

Client performs AAAA query:

 

 

 

Result (NXDOMAIN, no domain exists) is cached and there will be no further attempts to perform A (IPv4) query to our host! The expected behaviour should be like following:

 

*192.168.100.1 is my local dnsmasq resolver, which has workarounds for incorrect NXDOMAIN responses from upstream servers.

 

Please kindly fix this. Thanks.

 

P.S. And sorry for my bad English. ;)

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Re:Please fix significant AAAA query misbehaviour in TP-Link DDNS service
2024-11-06 09:36:05

  @KotPhilimon 

 

Hi, thanks for posting question here.

We would like to escalate your case to the support engineers, and they will help follow it up. If you are willing to do further analysis, please check your inbox and respond.    

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Re:Please fix significant AAAA query misbehaviour in TP-Link DDNS service
2024-11-06 09:58:52

  @Marvin_S 

 

Thanks for fast reply. I will wait for further investigation of this problem from support team.

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