[83133] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: /8 end user assignment?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sabri Berisha)
Fri Aug 5 07:58:02 2005
Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2005 13:56:32 +0200
From: Sabri Berisha <sabri@cluecentral.net>
To: abuse@cabal.org.uk
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <dcvjsp$oti$1@dopiaza.cabal.org.uk>
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On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 11:51:53AM +0000, abuse@cabal.org.uk wrote:
>
> Sabri Berisha <sabri@cluecentral.net> wrote:
> [...]
> > With the use of anycast DNS servers on the internet, TCP is no
> > longer an option for DNS.
>
> Erm, bollocks.
>
> Just because a few nameservers are anycasted doesn't mean that the
> vast majority of non-anycasted servers may not use TCP.
Oh I can't agree with that more. No problem in using tcp for
non-anycasted servers..
> Optimising the common case of simple lookups so they fit in a UDP
> request makes good sense, but an overzealous determination to stamp
> out TCP DNS is not helpful, since it is rather useful under certain
> circumstances.
I agree here,
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Sabri Berisha,
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