Hi,

On Oct 23, 2014, at 6:29 AM, Jelte Jansen <jelte.jan...@sidn.nl> wrote:
> I don't think there's an essential difference between a resolver at the
> edge and a shared resolver in any other way than the 'shared' part.

Yep, although that obviously has impact implications (fewer potential victims 
of a successful attack).

> One 'type' it haven't seen discussed it the root
> servers. Perhaps it won't be noticed in all the garbage they get right
> now, but perhaps the garbage they get will increase by a lot.

In addition to moving the resolvers to the edge, we could also include 
mirroring the root zone in those resolvers (a la Warren's draft). I believe 
that would significantly reduce the traffic to the root servers, even if there 
were a vast increase in the number of resolvers.  Of course, that doesn't help 
auth server operators farther down the tree...

> I do not think putting multiple questions in one request isn't reliably
> possible without heavy protocol changes;

I presume you mean "is" not "isn't".  Not sure it would require 'heavy' 
protocol changes -- I suspect all it would take would be to document how the 
multiple questions are packed into the query and how the multiple answers to 
those questions are packed into and parsed from the response. Since the 
question is included in the response, it shouldn't be too hard, just a small 
matter of programming... (:)).

> sure the protocol doesn't
> forbid adding more records to the question section, but it doesn't
> really have any way to answer them either; mostly because there is only
> one rcode field. So I don't think that option is as easy as the paper
> makes it out to be.

Agreed -- it would require redeployment of the entire infrastructure (albeit 
that could be done in a backwards compatible way). However, I actually think 
this would be a good enhancement to the DNS for performance/latency 
reduction/efficiency reasons.

Regards,
-drc


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