Instead of disabling the fragmentation on the UDP sockets, we now
disable the Path MTU Discovery by setting IP(V6)_MTU_DISCOVER socket
option to IP_PMTUDISC_OMIT on Linux and disabling IP(V6)_DONTFRAG socket
option on FreeBSD. This option sets DF=0 in the IP header and also
ignores the Path MTU Discovery.
As additional mitigation on Linux, we recommend setting
net.ipv4.ip_no_pmtu_disc to Mode 3:
Mode 3 is a hardend pmtu discover mode. The kernel will only accept
fragmentation-needed errors if the underlying protocol can verify
them besides a plain socket lookup. Current protocols for which pmtu
events will be honored are TCP, SCTP and DCCP as they verify
e.g. the sequence number or the association. This mode should not be
enabled globally but is only intended to secure e.g. name servers in
namespaces where TCP path mtu must still work but path MTU
information of other protocols should be discarded. If enabled
globally this mode could break other protocols.
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