Re: [DNSOP] Special-use TLDs in resolvers

Steve Crocker <steve@shinkuro.com> Fri, 16 August 2019 15:59 UTC

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From: Steve Crocker <steve@shinkuro.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2019 11:59:29 -0400
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Subject: Re: [DNSOP] Special-use TLDs in resolvers
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Ack.  Tnx.

On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 11:56 AM Joe Abley <jabley@hopcount.ca> wrote:

> On 16 Aug 2019, at 10:59, Steve Crocker <steve@shinkuro.com> wrote:
>
> > At the risk of revealing that I haven't been following this thread
> carefully, I don't understand how a resolver is supposed to know all of the
> special names.  Resolvers that are configured to know that invalid, local,
> onion, and test are special will not know about the next name that's put on
> the special list.
>
> The pragmatic answer right now is that vendors and package maintainers do
> a good job with their default configurations. DNS software tends to get
> upgraded frequently enough in applications with significant user bases that
> this goes some of the distance.
>
> I can see your point though that there might be some merit in having a way
> to retrieve a current list, or at least telling whether the list you have
> is up-to-date. I don't know that I think it's a particularly pressing
> problem though (I think DNSSEC trust anchor distribution for the root zone
> is higher up the priority list, for example).
>
>
> Joe
>