Re: squirting spray foam into the crack at the bottom of the BAW

Hugo Monteiro <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.djbdns
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 03/16/2010 10:20 AM, Maciej Żenczykowski wrote:
>>  From what i understood, that's exactly Dean point. DNS servers would
>> fallback to TCP if:
>>      
> not dns servers, dns caches / recursive resolvers
>
>    

They ARE dns servers. The records they serve may or not be local.

>> 1 - Responses were larger than 512 bytes (as described in the current RFC).
>> 2 - When they felt threatened by a birthday attack.
>>      
> Agreed, I was just pointing out this wouldn't actually work.  Many dns
> servers simply don't listen for TCP requests or have them firewalled
> (I know, I run one such server, never needed TCP, never bothered to
> set it up...).  You are not actually required to support tcp if you
> know all your answers will be small enough.
>
>    

And how can you know that every query to your resolver will produce a < 
512 bytes answer? Do you by any chance control all the queried 
authoritative servers? If not, i would say that you are your 
implementation is not RFC compliant.

R's,

Hugo Monteiro.

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