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Microsoft Windows Server Domain Name System (DNS) Security Technical Implementation Guide

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • The Windows DNS Server log must be enabled.

    <VulnDiscussion>Without the capability to generate audit records, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events r...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000516-DNS-000500

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The "Manage auditing and security log" user right must be assigned only to authorized personnel.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Without the capability to generate audit records, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events r...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000214-DNS-000079

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The validity period for the Resource Record Signatures (RRSIGs) covering the Delegation Signer (DS) Resource Record (RR) for a zone's delegated children must be no less than two days and no more than one week.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The best way for a zone administrator to minimize the impact of a key compromise is by limiting the validity period of RRSIGs...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000218-DNS-000027

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The Windows DNS name servers for a zone must be geographically dispersed.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;In addition to network-based separation, authoritative name servers should be dispersed geographically. In other words, in ad...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000383-DNS-000047

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The Windows DNS Server must prohibit recursion on authoritative name servers for which forwarders have not been configured for external queries.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;A potential vulnerability of DNS is that an attacker can poison a name server's cache by sending queries that will cause the ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000383-DNS-000047

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group

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