On 21/08/2013, at 3:23 PM, Paul Vixie <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Dobbins, Roland wrote:
>> <http://www.circleid.com/posts/20130820_a_question_of_dns_protocols/>
> 
> canard.
> 

We invested quite a lot of time re-checking things with a shorter EDNS0 limit 
coded into bind, to confirm the TCP failure rate, without the use of the CNAME 
to force the initial response over the limit. (ie, removing the complication of 
the CNAME intermediary) It was interesting that even when the A record 
information appears to be in the TC response, people ignore it and fall back to 
TCP anyway. I had worried the presence of valid answer and truncate in 
additional would cause some number of tested people to take the pre-truncation 
data anyway. it doesn't appear to happen.

The results with a simpler A-only forced TC test the same: we see a gross rate 
of resolver failure to complete at 17% and a user rate of 2% bearing in mind 
the extensive use of google 8.8.8.8 and in general, 2+ resolvers per client.

So, while I understand we're not DNS experts and we may well have made some 
mistakes, I think a one word 'canard' isn't helping.

-G





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