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Re: Why doesn't "Cloudflare 1.1.1.1" compress root answers?


From: Mehmet Akcin <mehmet () akcin net>
Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2018 16:20:26 -0400

I am sure they will after this ;)

On Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 4:00 PM, Bjørn Mork <bjorn () mork no> wrote:

At first I thought they had disabled compression:

 bjorn@miraculix:~$ dig . ns @1.1.1.1|grep SIZE
 ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 431
 bjorn@miraculix:~$ dig . ns @8.8.8.8|grep SIZE
 ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 239
 bjorn@miraculix:~$ dig . ns @9.9.9.9|grep SIZE
 ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 239


But then I noticed that they *do* compress other names:

 bjorn@miraculix:~$ dig net ns @1.1.1.1|grep SIZE
 ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 253
 bjorn@miraculix:~$ dig net ns @8.8.8.8|grep SIZE
 ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 253
 bjorn@miraculix:~$ dig net ns @9.9.9.9|grep SIZE
 ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 253


Which just makes it even more confusing.  What's so special about root?
Except for the obvious :-)



Bjørn




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