On Jan 4, 2015, at 2:44 AM, Alexander Neilson <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> 
>> On 1/01/2015, at 3:24 am, Ralf Weber <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Moin!
>> 
>>> On 31 Dec 2014, at 14:05, Alexander Neilson <[email protected]> 
>>> wrote:
>>> Some of the changes implemented in the last year:
>>> * Recursive resolvers now verify DNSSEC
>> Good! :-).
> 
> Attending NZNOG and AUSNOG has really helped with real world advice / best 
> practice at the high levels (I like deep dives into the technologies and 
> sometimes we get that too here)
> 
> Talks by Geoff Huston and others and developments discussed at these 
> conferences really helped me work on priorities for customer experience and 
> being a good citizen on the internet
> 
>> 
>>> * Improved ACL configuration to protect from attacks
>> If you mean not allowing the world to query your recursive servers that is a 
>> good idea. If you you use ACLs/iptables to protect against attacks from 
>> allowed clients that IMHO is a recipe for disaster as these attacks change 
>> quite frequently, but if you have a tightly controlled network you might not 
>> have these.
> 
> I fixed up the ACL’s to only allow recursion for our IP Space.
> 
> But I also implemented upstream border filtering to drop any outbound packets 
> trying to leave my network with a source not within our IP Space.
> 
> Its not full customer edge filtering (so we can’t match customers faking 
> other customers) but its our first steps into it.

Awesome

> 
>> 
>>> * IPv6 access to resolving and authoritative servers
>> Even Better :-)
> 
> Next step is a full IPv6 rollout to customers

Excellent… On a side note you may want to read: 
https://www.m3aawg.org/sites/maawg/files/news/M3AAWG_Inbound_IPv6_Policy_Issues-2014-09.pdf

Which deals with email but also rDNS.

> 
>> 
>>> * Resolved Fragmentation issues to allow full 4096 EDNS resolution
>> The best ;-). It seems like you already learned a lot and have taken the 
>> right decisions.
> 
> I am doing my best to try improve all aspects of our network. However the 
> learning is what I really value out of it all as every change I make helps me 
> to understand how it all works in the plumbing.

You may find some useful documentation here if you worry about your network and 
not DNS only: https://www.m3aawg.org/published-documents

> 
>> 
>> [..]
>>> To give an idea of the current top questions I have (however not limiting 
>>> myself to learning about these):
>>> 
>>> * prioritisation of root servers (my analysis of my server queries shows a 
>>> high proportion of queries to a.root-servers.net however I have identified 
>>> that this is one of the lowest response performance root server from where 
>>> I am located), I would like to prefer the 6 root servers with the best 
>>> response time (I have found 6 with RTT of less than 5ms and the rest show 
>>> RTT ~180-200)
>> Normally your resolver software should do this. The only reason I have why 
>> it doesn't is that there is a difference between the round trip that ping 
>> gives you and the actual round trip of the dns message, which the resolver 
>> will use for it's decision which server to query. Some servers take some 
>> time to answer a query, although it shouldn't be in the hundreds of 
>> milliseconds range.
> 
> I did some actual resolution checks from the system and saw the following 
> response times for a DNS queries for the com TLD NS
> 
> a: Query time: 199 msec
> b: Query time: 137 msec
> c: Query time: 144 msec
> d: Query time: 9 msec
> e: Query time: 8 msec
> f: Query time: 129 msec
> g: Query time: 172 msec
> h: Query time: 201 msec
> i: Query time: 79 msec
> j: Query time: 134 msec
> k: Query time: 206 msec
> l: Query time: 8 msec
> m: Query time: 243 msec
> 
> Now it may be something inside the network that specifically asks for a 
> resolution of or against a.root-servers.net but I am seeing 11% of queries 
> for a. and nothing in the top lists for any other root server.

I would have expected from NZ, the I and F root server would be the fastest… 

http://www.apnic.net/community/support/root-servers/root-server-map
https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?ll=11.424429,26.178063&ie=UTF8&om=1&msa=0&spn=142.883537,288.632813&z=2&hl=en&mid=zlG9ajNou0XE.kueIslroMXZQ

You may want to get an atlas probe, so you can participate in global DNS 
measurements: https://atlas.ripe.net/

See results there: https://atlas.ripe.net/results/maps/
and how it matches your view of the Internet.

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