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Re: large organization nameservers sending icmp packets to dns servers.

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roland Dobbins)
Fri Aug 10 19:59:52 2007

In-Reply-To: <28611.1186789291@sa.vix.com>
From: Roland Dobbins <rdobbins@cisco.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 16:54:02 -0700
To: nanog@merit.edu
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On Aug 10, 2007, at 4:41 PM, Paul Vixie wrote:

>> On the other hand, potentially larger messages may offer the  
>> necessary
>> motivation for adding ACLs on recursive DNS, and deploying BCP 38.
>
> i surely do hope so.  we need those ACLs and we need that  
> deployment, and if
> message size and TCP fallback is a motivator, then let's turn UP  
> the volume.

There are so many more larger and immediate reasons for doing these  
things that I seriously doubt message size and TCP fallback on the  
DNS will have any impact at all in terms of motivating the non- 
motivated.

But, one can always hope.

;>

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