On Mon, Dec 02, 2013 at 01:13:26PM -0500, Warren Kumari <war...@kumari.net> wrote a message of 35 lines which said:
> > OK. And do note "chaff" may be a by-product of > > draft-wkumari-dnsop-hammer. > > Um, please explain. > > Hammer (and the various similar, actually implemented things) simply > trigger lookups a few seconds before the TTL would naturally expire > *in response to an incoming query*. OK, I was too fast, sorry. Hammer itself does not scramble the stream of requests. So, I withdraw the reference to Hammer. Still, sending gratuitous queries, without an incoming query and without waiting for the expiration, may be a good strategy for a resolver to make traffic analysis more difficult for the eavesdropper (or for the authoritative name servers). _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list DNSOP@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
