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

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • Primary authoritative name servers must be configured to only receive zone transfer requests from specified secondary name servers.

    <VulnDiscussion>Authoritative name servers (especially primary name servers) should be configured with an allow-transfer access control subst...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000516-DNS-000099

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The Windows DNS Servers zone database files must not be accessible for edit/write by users and/or processes other than the Windows DNS Server service account and/or the DNS database administrator.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Discretionary Access Control (DAC) is based on the premise that individual users are "owners" of objects and therefore have d...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000516-DNS-000101

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The Windows DNS Server must implement internal/external role separation.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;DNS servers with an internal role only process name/address resolution requests from within the organization (i.e., internal ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000516-DNS-000102

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The Windows DNS Server authoritative for local zones must only point root hints to the DNS servers that host the internal root domain.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;All caching name servers must be authoritative for the root zone because, without this starting point, they would have no kno...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000516-DNS-000113

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The Windows DNS Servers zone files must not include resource records that resolve to a fully qualified domain name residing in another zone.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;If a name server could claim authority for a resource record in a domain for which it was not authoritative, this would pose ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000516-DNS-000114

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group

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