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Re: v6 DNSSEC fail, was Buying IPv4 blocks


From: Mark Tinka <mark.tinka () seacom mu>
Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2018 07:12:26 +0200



On 5/Oct/18 03:07, John Levine wrote:

Yeah, V6 UDP fragmentation and anycast are bad news.  You can sort of
fix it by doing all your v6 DNSSEC DNS queries over TCP but it's a lot
easier to stick to v4.

Geoff Huston has written about this a lot and it's a well known problem
in the DNS community.  I'm surprised if it's news to anyone here.

https://blog.apnic.net/2017/08/22/dealing-ipv6-fragmentation-dns/

In BIND, I think this can be solved by using the "minimal-responses" knob.

Mark.

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