Re: [DNSOP] draft-tale-dnsop-serve-stale

Robert Edmonds <edmonds@mycre.ws> Mon, 27 March 2017 22:47 UTC

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From: Robert Edmonds <edmonds@mycre.ws>
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Subject: Re: [DNSOP] draft-tale-dnsop-serve-stale
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Jared Mauch wrote:
> IOn Mar 27, 2017, at 5:59 PM, P Vix <paul@redbarn.org> wrote:
> > 
> > I agree to review and comment. Note that I am provisionally negative to the idea itself, and my review may reflect that. Vixie
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> 
> I will note there are other implementations out there as well, such as in unbound.  serve-expired configuration directive is available there as well.

Though, the algorithm described in this document is a much different
algorithm than the one in Unbound.

If I understand Unbound's serve-expired algorithm correctly, it always
serves from cache if available (regardless of expiration status), and if
what it served to the client happened to be expired, it triggers a
post-response fetch to update the cache asynchronously. That can end up
serving a lot more stale bread than is strictly necessary if your
Unbound server only serves a few clients.

(I guess Unbound could sort of be said to implement this draft, but with
the client response timer hardcoded to 0 and the maximum stale timer
hardcoded to ∞.)

I support adoption of this document.

-- 
Robert Edmonds