Re: [Resolverless-dns] Paper on Resolver-less DNS

"John R Levine" <johnl@taugh.com> Thu, 15 August 2019 22:21 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Resolverless-dns] Paper on Resolver-less DNS
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On Thu, 15 Aug 2019, Eric Orth wrote:
> My initial thinking is that we would then ideally only use
> resolverless DNS if we had knowledge that the in-use recursive resolver is
> not doing significant filtering.  But such a signal does not currently
> generally exist, so would we be limited to only doing resolverless DNS when
> the resolver is on a hardcoded list of non-filtering resolvers?

It's hard to imagine how you could get such a signal in a way that would 
be useful.  Who's going to publish "yeah, sure, bypass me, I don't care"?

There are heuristics like looking to see if it's one of the popular 
n.n.n.n public resolvers, but I wouldn't want to push it too far.

Regards,
John Levine, johnl@taugh.com, Taughannock Networks, Trumansburg NY
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