Re: [DNSOP] BCP on rrset ordering for round-robin? Also head's up on bind 9.12 bug (sorting rrsets by default)

Colm MacCárthaigh <colm@allcosts.net> Sat, 16 June 2018 00:01 UTC

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From: Colm MacCárthaigh <colm@allcosts.net>
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2018 17:01:15 -0700
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Subject: Re: [DNSOP] BCP on rrset ordering for round-robin? Also head's up on bind 9.12 bug (sorting rrsets by default)
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I think so too; and I wouldn't be so strict on backwards compatibility
there.

That behavior is a side-channel that defeats DNS privacy in some cases.
E.g. I can query a record, watch you send an encrypted query, then query
the record again, and tell what you queried. Within some probability at
least.

For that reason, It'd be worth experimenting with an implementation that
does shuffle the results each time.

On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 4:54 PM, Shumon Huque <shuque@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 5:55 PM Colm MacCárthaigh <colm@allcosts.net>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> Just a question on this: was the old/classic behavior really
>> random/shuffled? Or was it that bind would "rotate" through iterations
>> where the order was the same each time if you think of the rrset list as a
>> ring, but with a different start and end point within that ring? (That's
>> what's described here: https://docstore..mik.ua/
>> orelly/networking_2ndEd/dns/ch10_07.htm
>> <https://docstore.mik.ua/orelly/networking_2ndEd/dns/ch10_07.htm>)
>>
>
> ISC veterans can confirm, but my recollection is that the earliest
> implementations were indeed as described above - the response RRset was
> cycled/rotated, rather than randomized.
>
> Shumon.
>
>


-- 
Colm