Re: [DNSOP] Call for Adoption: draft-fujiwara-dnsop-avoid-fragmentation

Mukund Sivaraman <muks@mukund.org> Wed, 15 April 2020 00:41 UTC

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Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2020 06:11:24 +0530
From: Mukund Sivaraman <muks@mukund.org>
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Subject: Re: [DNSOP] Call for Adoption: draft-fujiwara-dnsop-avoid-fragmentation
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On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 05:11:46AM +0530, Mukund Sivaraman wrote:
> One more question:
> 
> > 3.  Proposal to avoid IP fragmentation in DNS
> 
> >    o  UDP requestors and responders SHOULD send DNS responses with
> >       IP_DONTFRAG / IPV6_DONTFRAG [RFC3542] options, which will yield
> >       either a silent timeout, or a network (ICMP) error, if the path
> >       MTU is exceeded.  Upon a timeout, UDP requestors may retry using
> >       TCP or UDP, per local policy.
> 
> If the IP_DONTFRAG/IP_DF/IP_PMTUDISC_DO option is available and can be
> used to set the DF flag on DNS over UDP over IPv4 PDUs, why are any of
> the following maximum-size mitigations (the next 3 items after the above
> quoted item) necessary?

Possibly this is client-driven mitigation, right? A client which does
not know if the server will set DF=1 can still avoid fragmentation of
the reply by using a smaller EDNS UDP payload size.

		Mukund