Re: [v6ops] enable-ula.py
Bob Harold <rharolde@umich.edu> Mon, 16 May 2022 12:15 UTC
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From: Bob Harold <rharolde@umich.edu>
Date: Mon, 16 May 2022 08:15:23 -0400
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To: Mark Smith <markzzzsmith@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [v6ops] enable-ula.py
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On Sun, May 15, 2022 at 6:51 PM Mark Smith <markzzzsmith@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, 16 May 2022, 04:35 Philip Homburg, <pch-v6ops-11@u-1.phicoh.com> > wrote: > > > > > The goal is noble. I think that making it general-purpose, in the > > > way that the socket API is general-purpose, will be very hard. Will > > > it become the standard answer to all relevant questions on Stack > > > Overflow? > > > > > > So, despite that effort, and all Eduard's arguments, I think that > > > the best we can do here is focus on making RFC6724 work better. > > > Even that requires getting getaddrinfo() developers to work for > > > us. > > > > Getaddrinfo is important for two reasons: > > 1) It is all we have, and it is unlikely we will get something better. > > 2) There is a lot of code that uses getaddrinfo and then follows with a > > synchronous loop over the struct addrinfo entries. > > > I think the more fundamental issue is that default DNS resolver and > TCP transport layer protocol connection establishment timeouts are > terribly un-user friendly these days. They would have been back in the > 80s too when they were chosen, so I'm not sure what motivated them > being so large. > Back then, there were modem links that auto-dialed when there was traffic, and that took a while to make a connection. Computers and links were much slower back then. Yes, we should update the timeouts, but there was a reason why they were set that way. -- Bob Harold > > For example, on current Fedora Linux, a TCP connection to a > destination that doesn't exist took 2 minutes and 12 seconds to > timeout: > > [mark@opy ~]$ date; telnet 8.8.8.9; date > Mon 16 May 2022 08:24:50 AEST > Trying 8.8.8.9... > telnet: connect to address 8.8.8.9: Connection timed out > Mon 16 May 2022 08:27:02 AEST > [mark@opy ~]$ > > Going by "Response Times: The 3 Important Limits" ( > https://www.nngroup.com/articles/response-times-3-important-limits/ ) > an application connection attempt should take no more than 10 seconds > before the end-user gets some feedback either on progress or that it > has failed. > > So I think the goal for connection attempting the average number of > DAs that getaddrinfo() returns needs to be a total of 10 seconds. Much > lower DNS timeouts and TCP etc. connection timeouts would facilitate > sequential connection attempts within a much more user friendly time > period. > > I realise that this WG is not the place to solve DNS and transport > layer timeouts, however I think it is an impossible thing to solve > entirely with IPv6 SA/DA address selection changes and getaddrinfo() > when the overriding constraint are these un-user friendly DNS and TCP > etc. timeouts. > > Regards, > Mark. > > > > > So we have to make getaddrinfo work as well as we can. In particular, > > we need to make the chance as high as possible that a connection to > > the first struct addrinfo entry succeeds (based on local knowledge). > > > > That said, getaddrinfo is relic of the past. It probably was a nice step > > forward 20 years ago. Now is the wrong tool. > > > > Fixing getaddrinfo is like coming up with a better design for a steam > > engine. Not because steam engines are so great. But because we completely > > failed to have a standard for anything more modern. > > > > I don't claim to know what a modern tool should look like. But we are > stuck > > in the past. We can't try anything new to see if it works and what the > > limitations are. > > >
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