Re: [DNSOP] Brian Haberman's No Record on draft-ietf-dnsop-root-loopback-04: (with COMMENT)

["Joe Abley" <[e-mail]>]

On 30 Sep 2015, at 12:53, Paul Hoffman wrote:

> I'll add the v4/v6 wording to the post-IESG-review draft unless there 
> is objection in the WG.

I like the v4/v6 wording, for what that's worth.

> John Levine just answered your question about why the address might 
> already be in use, which was something that was brought up in the 
> early discussion of this draft in the WG. It means that you can't run 
> both this and some other DNS-listening task on ::1, whereas you can 
> run both on different addresses in 127/8. We'll cover that in the new 
> wording.

Since a single operator controls both ends, there's no need to use a 
well-known port. If you can't bind to 127.0.0.1:53 because something 
else is already listening there, use 127.0.0.1:12345.


Joe