Re: [homenet] Status of draft-tldm-simple-homenet-naming CFA

[Ted Lemon <[e-mail]>]

El 15 ag 2017, a les 19:32, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <[e-mail]> va escriure:
>> In both of these cases, you are better off doing what we discussed
>> earlier and setting up your own DNS cache, possibly with a whitelist
>> for domains you want to send to the ISP forwarder.
> 
> Sure, and that's what I usually do. But if we can't specify that
> behaviour for homenet, at least trying all upstream DNS servers gives a
> better chance of finding one that works.

I'm really sorry, but I'm actually having trouble contextualizing the failure mode that you are talking about here.   Didn't I agree with you in a previous message that we should try all the upstream DNS servers?

> You may be right that hacking up a working prototype isn't that hard.
> But the failure modes change from "the internet is down" or may "I
> cannot access site A", to "site A is working every third attempt, except
> it is entirely broken on device X" maybe even with an added "ah, but
> it works on device X if I go into the kitchen".

Didn't we agree that we aren't round-robining?

> Hmm, while writing this is occurred to me that it might make sense to
> just export the ISP DNS server(s) directly in the MPvD-only RAs?

This would certainly work, but now you can't have your nice local resolver that does what you want.   However, I think you are right that this is the right default behavior for MPvD-aware devices.