Re: [DNSOP] [Ext] I-D Action: draft-ietf-dnsop-serve-stale-03.txt

[Dave Lawrence <[e-mail]>]

Joe Abley writes:
> if you can find a set of DNS authority servers that silently
> discards a particular kind of query, sending such queries through
> resolvers that are known to support serve-stale might suppress other
> queries and trigger the serve-stale behaviour even though the
> authority servers are not actually unresponsive for them.

RFC 2308 section 7.2 made it clear that when caching a dead server
indication, "The indication MUST be stored against query tuple <query
name, type, class, server IP address> unless there was a transport
layer indication that the server does not exist, in which case it
applies to all queries to that specific IP address."

The scenario described in one of a resolver that is modern enough to
have implemented standards-compliant serve-stale behavior but is still
not standards-compliant with a two decade old RFC, interacting over a
path with a delegation to authoritative servers that are all
exhibiting erratic behavior.  This needs some supporting evidence that
it could really be a real-world problem that needs to be addressed.