Re: [dnsext] draft-mohan-dns-query-xml-00.txt

Aki Tuomi <Aki.Tuomi@tdc.fi> Thu, 29 September 2011 07:15 UTC

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From: Aki Tuomi <Aki.Tuomi@tdc.fi>
To: Nicholas Weaver <nweaver@ICSI.Berkeley.EDU>, Mohan Parthasarathy <suruti94@gmail.com>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: dnsext-bounces@ietf.org [mailto:dnsext-bounces@ietf.org] On
> Behalf Of Nicholas Weaver
> Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2011 3:40 AM
> To: Mohan Parthasarathy
> Cc: Paul Vixie; dnsext@ietf.org
> Subject: Re: [dnsext] draft-mohan-dns-query-xml-00.txt
> 
> 
> On Sep 28, 2011, at 4:48 PM, Mohan Parthasarathy wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 2:16 PM, Nicholas Weaver
> > <nweaver@icsi.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Sep 28, 2011, at 2:07 PM, Mohan Parthasarathy wrote:
> >>> If I want to be able to run both my web service and DNS service
> from
> >>> the same address, then I can't just run DNS alone over 80/443.
> >>
> >> Have you looked at just running normal DNS recursively from the end
> host, including failover to TCP when things are obviously breaking?
> >>
> >> We don't have ALL the information yet (our test is not comprehensive
> enough), but most systems CAN do direct fetches on UDP or TCP if they
> must: non-functioning recursive resolvers should not be a problem for
> DNSSEC validation.
> >>
> >
> > I am not sure I understand the question. If you are dependent on a
> > recursive server to fetch the DNSSEC records, then that server needs
> > to be DNSSEC aware. If you are operating in iterative mode fetching
> it
> > yourself, then it does not work in environments where firewalls
> > normally prohibit talking to external name servers. Which one are you
> > talking about ? We had a lengthy discussion about the various options
> > in the dnssec-deployment group recently.
> 
> Don't be dependent on the recursive server.  Just fetch it thyself
> iteratively, starting with the root, and be done with it.
> 

Many corporate firewalls do not permit you to go fetch stuff yourself, but insist you use the local resolvers. Of course, corporate environments probably do not apply here in any case. But I thought I'd just mention this. 

Aki Tuomi
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