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Re: "trivial" changes to DNS (was: OpenNTPProject.org)


From: Jared Mauch <jared () puck nether net>
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 21:23:05 -0500


On Jan 17, 2014, at 6:44 AM, Tony Finch <dot () dotat at> wrote:

Jared Mauch <jared () puck Nether net> wrote:

     I can point anyone interested to the place in the
bind source to force it to reply to all UDP queries with TC=1
to force TCP.  should be safe on any authority servers, as a recursive
server should be able to do outbound TCP.

However see http://www.potaroo.net/ispcol/2013-09/dnstcp.html

Yes, I’m aware of the excellent work by Geoff on this topic.  There are many
things that could be done, including the nonce (or similar) approach NTP
took with MONLIST vs MRULIST.

Perhaps it’s something like this:

http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-eastlake-dnsext-cookies-03

- Jared

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