[106697] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: maybe a dumb idea on how to fix the dns problems i don't know....
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Vixie)
Sun Aug 10 14:58:28 2008
From: Paul Vixie <vixie@isc.org>
To: Joe Abley <jabley@ca.afilias.info>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 10 Aug 2008 12:51:26 -0400."
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Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2008 18:58:14 +0000
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> > actually, it does (need a bigger posse).
>
> Rhetoric aside, no it doesn't.
>
> Choosing not to implement (or permit, as an operational decision) TCP
> because of concerns about state is what you go on to talk about; what you
> were actually replying to was the wholesale denial of 53/tcp out of
> simple ignorance, which I would be surprised to hear you endorse, even if
> it happens to coincide on this instance with the results of your
> analysis.
not doing tcp/53 because the last guy didn't do it is the first step toward
not doing tcp/53 because it's amazingly fragile. sorry to cross the streams
without a diagram.
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