Re: [DNSOP] SVCB without A/AAAA records at the service name

[Ben Schwartz <[e-mail]>]

On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 12:43 PM Hollenbeck, Scott <shollenbeck=
[e-mail]> wrote:

> *From:* DNSOP <[e-mail]> *On Behalf Of * Ben Schwartz
> *Sent:* Tuesday, January 19, 2021 10:01 PM
> *To:* Martin Thomson <[e-mail]>
> *Cc:* dnsop <[e-mail]>
> *Subject:* [EXTERNAL] Re: [DNSOP] SVCB without A/AAAA records at the
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> On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 7:40 PM Martin Thomson <[e-mail]> wrote:
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> On Wed, Jan 20, 2021, at 09:17, Ben Schwartz wrote:
> > As I noted in that discussion, the client generally doesn't know in
> > advance that they aren't needed.
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> I am asserting that the client very much knows.  Indeed, it has to know.
> If we define a new protocol that relies on SVCB and that protocol is able
> to use SVCB exclusively (which would be a good thing in my view, all this
> parallel DNS querying is unnecessary, even if the DNS protocol is pretty
> good at it), then a client can very much know.
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> Querying in parallel is of course just an optimization, but the client
> can't obviously know that those queries won't be needed, even for a
> protocol that uses SVCB exclusively.
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> Every SVCB mapping ultimately relies on A/AAAA records for the ServiceMode
> TargetName.  The client doesn't know what that TargetName will be until it
> gets the SVCB response.  However, in every protocol considered thus far,
> the most likely TargetName is the original hostname (or its CNAME alias).
> By querying that name in parallel, the client can short-circuit a
> subsequent lookup and reduce latency.  This has nothing to do with fallback.
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> *[SAH] We need to think about the impact on the servers that have to
> respond to those queries, too. Sending unnecessary queries to the root and
> TLD servers puts a load on those servers that can have an impact on every
> client/resolver that needs to be able to reach them.*
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This is important, but I don't think it's applicable here.  The various
options under consideration all impose the same amount of load on root and
TLD servers.