Re: [DNSOP] Working Group Last Call for draft-ietf-dnsop-edns-chain-query

Evan Hunt <each@isc.org> Mon, 09 November 2015 20:52 UTC

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From: Evan Hunt <each@isc.org>
To: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
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Subject: Re: [DNSOP] Working Group Last Call for draft-ietf-dnsop-edns-chain-query
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On Mon, Nov 09, 2015 at 04:55:24PM +0000, Tony Finch wrote:
> With the current DNS protocol, a stub resolver can get all the records it
> needs to validate a response in 1RTT, by sending multiple concurrent
> queries for all the possible delegation points in the QNAME.

But has to retain state for all those active queries, which adds a fair
bit of complexity.  I would expect it to be a lot more straightforward to
code a stub validator using CHAIN.

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