Re: [DNSOP] [dnsext] Computerworld apparently has changed DNS protocol

[Alfred Hönes <[e-mail]>]

Bill Manning wrote:

>       cool eh?  although I suspect she ment responses.
>
> --bill

Yet responses usually did not go *to* the root servers so far.
I'm getting confused.    :-)  :-)

Did anybody ever have a prejudice against journalists?
-- reconsider, please!  :-)

  Alfred.

P.S.: Disclosing that the writer was female seemed politically
      incorrect to me, so I purposely avoided this detail.


> On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 07:58:41PM +0100, Alfred Hönes wrote:
>> Interesting News!
>>
>> There must be a hidden trick to introduce DNS Jumbograms we just
>> forgot to mention ....
>>
>>
>> In a press article [1] entitled
>>     "Root zone changes may shake up Net in Africa",
>> Computerworld wrote:
>>
>> | From January 2010, ICANN will implement DNSSEC -- using a technique
>> | also known as root signing -- on the root zone, which will affect
>> | the performance of the Internet.  Currently, queries from domain
>> | servers to the root are 512 kilobytes or less, but DNSSEC will make
>>                           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> | them larger because it introduces new signatures and keys as part
>>   ^^^^^^^^^^^
>> | of the security features.
>>
>>
>> :-}
>>
>>
>> [1]
>>   http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9140123/Root_zone_changes_may_shake_up_Net_in_Africa
>