Re: [dns-privacy] what's good enough, or Threat Model

"John R Levine" <johnl@taugh.com> Sun, 03 November 2019 04:25 UTC

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Subject: Re: [dns-privacy] what's good enough, or Threat Model
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On Sat, 2 Nov 2019, Eric Rescorla wrote:
>> It's easy enough to imagine an EDNS option that asks whether a server
>> supports ADoT, that the client can use as a signal to try again on
>> port 853.
>
> Sure. One reason you might be sad about this is that it has an extra round trip.

Indeed, but assuming the stub remembers what it's probed recently, the 
number of extra round trips might not be all that high.  This strikes me 
as an area where some experiments or simulations could be very 
informative.

Regards,
John Levine, johnl@taugh.com, Taughannock Networks, Trumansburg NY
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