Hey everyone, We have resurrected our draft Improving DNS Service Availability by Using Long TTL Values, and added some new polish to it. We've taken some feedback from various people and would love to hear any thoughts other people have.
Thanks! Eric Begin forwarded message: > From: internet-dra...@ietf.org > Date: February 23, 2012 7:57:30 AM PST > To: i-d-annou...@ietf.org > Subject: I-D Action: draft-pappas-dnsop-long-ttl-04.txt > Reply-To: internet-dra...@ietf.org > > > A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts > directories. > > Title : Improving DNS Service Availability by Using Long TTL > Values > Author(s) : Vasileios Pappas > Eric Osterweil > Filename : draft-pappas-dnsop-long-ttl-04.txt > Pages : 17 > Date : 2012-02-23 > > Due to the hierarchical tree structure of the Domain Name System > [RFC1034][RFC1035], losing all of the authoritative servers that > serve a zone can disrupt services to not only that zone but all of > its descendants. This problem is particularly severe if all the > authoritative servers of the root zone, or of a top level domain's > zone, fail. Although proper placement of secondary servers, as > discussed in [RFC2182], can be an effective means against isolated > failures, it is insufficient to protect the DNS service against a > Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack. This document proposes > to reduce the impact of DDoS attacks against top level DNS servers by > setting long TTL values for NS records and their associated A and > AAAA records. Our proposed changes are purely operational and can be > deployed incrementally. > > > A URL for this Internet-Draft is: > http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-pappas-dnsop-long-ttl-04.txt > > Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP at: > ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/ > > This Internet-Draft can be retrieved at: > ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-pappas-dnsop-long-ttl-04.txt > > _______________________________________________ > I-D-Announce mailing list > i-d-annou...@ietf.org > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/i-d-announce > Internet-Draft directories: http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html > or ftp://ftp.ietf.org/ietf/1shadow-sites.txt _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list DNSOP@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
