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Re: [DNSOP] Computerworld apparently has changed DNS protocol

David Blacka <davidb@verisign.com> Wed, 04 November 2009 22:04 UTC

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Subject: Re: [DNSOP] Computerworld apparently has changed DNS protocol
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On Nov 4, 2009, at 3:39 PM, Florian Weimer wrote:

> * David Blacka:
>
>> I actually researched this, and need to spend some time cleaning up
>> the report before posting it to this list.  But the bottom line is
>> that yes, all responses save a few at the apex of root are below  
>> 1500b
>> (actually, below 1100b).  The responses that are larger are ". rrsig"
>> and ". any" (and ". dnskey" if minimal dnskey responses aren't used).
>> ". any" is the only one that would actually set TC if, say, the
>> advertised buffer size were set to 1280.
>
> What about a.root-servers.net/IN/A etc.?  (Assuming that
> root-servers.net will be signed eventually.)

My research didn't cover that, but the responses will still be fairly  
small.  I'm also not making the assumption that root-servers.net will  
be signed eventually.

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David Blacka                          <davidb@verisign.com>
Sr. Engineer          VeriSign Platform Product Development

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