for WG consideration…
manning bmann...@karoshi.com PO Box 12317 Marina del Rey, CA 90295 310.322.8102 Begin forwarded message: > From: manning <bmann...@karoshi.com> > Subject: observations re: > https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-dnsop-resolver-priming-05 > Date: April 27, 2015 at 15:08:13 PDT > To: p...@denic.de, mlar...@dyn.com > Cc: Suzanne Woolf <suzworldw...@gmail.com> > > > > A few thoughts on reading your draft: > > ) In the intro, the text states, "The list of root name servers has been > rather stable over the last fifteen years. After the last four servers had > been added and moved > to their final (network) destinations in 1997, there have been only five > address changes..” > > "Final" seems predictive, absent credible data. Perhaps “current” > would be a more accurate reflection of reality. > > ) You list reports on B and J renumbering events/effects. Is there a > reason to elide http://www.cs.umd.edu/~dml/papers/droot.pdf from your > references? > > ) The deeper question can be illuminated by reading sections 2.1 & 2.2. > If the query type == NS, is it required to respond with the RRset for NS > (according to RFC 2181 sec.5)? > Just responding with the NS list opens some interesting possibilities. And > after all, a significant DDoS vector exists simply because of this stricture > in RFC 2181. It may be worthwhile > re-examining the impact of the recommendations in RFC 2181. In fact, > there are some active experiments looking into just this. > > > Thanks for reading... > > manning > > bmann...@karoshi.com > PO Box 12317 > Marina del Rey, CA 90295 > 310.322.8102 > > > _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list DNSOP@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
