Re: [dns-privacy] Multiple DNS requests per packet, multiple packet responses

[Phillip Hallam-Baker <[e-mail]>]

On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 2:06 PM, Tony Finch <[e-mail]> wrote:

> Phillip Hallam-Baker <[e-mail]> wrote:
> >
> > In particular, if we let a DNS query ask more than one question at a
> > time then we improve latency of responses.
>
> No need to change the protocol, just make the queries concurrently. If
> your implementation makes that slow, fix the implementation. You would
> have to fix it anyway in order to support the protocol changes, so you
> might as well do the fix without the protocol change. No need to waste
> time and money on talking about paper protocols.
>

This is not a change. It is implementing RFC1035 as written.

BIND and co have done it wrong all these years. If the implementations are
not wrong then where is the RFC that states QDCOUNT = 1?


I have talked to the engineers at several browser companies and they tell
me that parallel queries do not actually work the way you imagine.

In the first place it is only possible to issue the queries at all if you
override the built in platform API. But even when you do, problems are
caused by middleboxes and ISPs which limit the number of concurrent queries.


For a resolver, the change is cheap. The benefit to the client is enormous.


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