On Thu 2014-10-23 22:44:19 -0400, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 7:50 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> On Thu 2014-10-23 08:45:45 -0400, Phillip Hallam-Baker <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> > Which in my view means that the recursive has to be a trusted service and
>> > the notion of promiscuous recursive resolver use has to be stamped out.
>>
>> I'm not convinced that your conclusion follows from your premise here,
>> Phil.
>>
>> I agree with your premise that a recursive resolver needs to be a
>> trusted service.
>>
>> But i don't see why a trusted recursive resolver can't be "promiscuous"
>> (though it's possible that i'm not understanding the term in the way you
>> mean it).
>>
>> For example, anonymity-friendly service provider nologs.example might
>> offer a recursive resolver for anyone who wants to use it, while
>> identifying themselves to the public with cryptographically-strong
>> credentials.
>
> I am all for the service user being anonymous. I do not want to use an
> anonymous service though.

Right, so you're saying "promiscuously using arbitrary recursive
resolvers is a bad idea", but not that "promiscuous recursive resolvers
are a bad idea".

> What I mean by promiscuous is using the service that happens to be
> advertised in DHCP for anything other than bootstrapping and that only when
> absolutely necessary.

yep.

        --dkg

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