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

  • From: Paul Vixie
  • Date: Thu Aug 09 19:41:10 2007

[email protected] writes:

> > ... advising folks to monitor their authority servers to find out how
> > many truncated responses are going out and how many TCP sessions result
> > from these truncations and how many of these TCP sessions are killed by
> > the RFC1035 4.2.2 connection management logic, and if the numbers seem
> > high, then they ought to change their applications and DNS content so
> > that truncations no longer result.
> 
> How does the (eventual) deployment of DNSSEC change these numbers?

DNSSEC cannot be signalled except in EDNS.

> And who's likely to feel *that* pain first?

the DNSSEC design seems to distribute pain very fairly.
-- 
Paul Vixie