Re: Fwd: New Version Notification for draft-wouters-edns-tcp-keepalive-00.txt (fwd)

Mark Andrews <[email protected]>
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In message <[email protected]>, Paul Wouters w
rites:
> On Fri, 18 Oct 2013, Tony Finch wrote:
> 
> >>> I am worried that this will make edns-tcp-keepalive clients perform
> >>> unnecessarily badly when talking to RFC 5966 servers,
> >>
> >> could you explain how?
> >
> > An RFC 5966 server supports persistent TCP but does not advertise this
> > fact.
> 
> I hope to have some measurements done in time for Vancouver to see what
> the percentage of queries/servers is where this is a problem. That could
> help assess whether or not we still need a special indication via edns
> or not.

Why?  Clients should be able to handle the connection being closed
unexpectedly and retry any uncompleted queries.

> Paul
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