[83172] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: /8 end user assignment?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher L. Morrow)
Sat Aug 6 14:25:54 2005
Date: Sat, 06 Aug 2005 18:25:18 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Christopher L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow@mci.com>
In-reply-to: <dcvjsp$oti$1@dopiaza.cabal.org.uk>
To: abuse@cabal.org.uk
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Fri, 5 Aug 2005 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.
>
> 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.
*cough* worldnic dns servers *cough*
it's part of the rfc, make sure it works please.
