Re: [Add] [Ext] Draft Posting: CNAME Discovery of Local DoH Resolvers

[Paul Vixie <[e-mail]>]

On Sunday, 28 June 2020 18:29:22 UTC John R Levine wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Jun 2020, Michael Richardson wrote:
> >    > Beyond that I gather there is still concern about SOHO routers with
> >    > poorly implemented DNS forwarders that only handle some kinds of
> >    > queries.
> > 
> > I believe that the majority of devices on the market are now based upon
> > versions of openwrt which, even if 10 years out of date, now have only 15
> > year old DNS forwarding code.  And that's new enough.
> 
> It's not what's on sale now, it's what's installed.  People tend to keep
> what they have unless it breaks in ways that are obvious to them.

as we learned with EDNS, we should have broken more stuff sooner. being 
liberal in what we accept and conservative in what we generate has not scaled 
and won't.

-- 
Paul