On Nov 4, 2020, at 12:29 AM, Stephane Bortzmeyer <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Nov 02, 2020 at 02:54:13PM -0800,
> [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote 
> a message of 43 lines which said:
> 
>>        Title           : DNS Privacy Requirements for Exchanges between 
>> Recursive Resolvers and Authoritative Servers
>>        Authors         : Jason Livingood
>>                          Alexander Mayrhofer
>>                          Benno Overeinder
>>      Filename        : draft-ietf-dprive-phase2-requirements-02.txt
> 
> In 5.1, items 2 and 3 may require some clarification. For instance, "A
> recursive resolver that supports recursive-to-authoritative DNS
> encryption MUST be able to determine whether or not a given
> authoritative name server to which it intends to connect also supports
> recursive-to-authoritative DNS encryption." An obvious way to fulfill
> this requirment is to try to start TLS on port 853 and see if it
> works. But I guess item 2 was instead about the ability to determine
> IN ADVANCE, before connecting, if encryption is supposed to be
> supported? 

It would be useful if a resolver could tell in advance, and at a cost less than 
port-checking. There could be a new protocols developed to do that. I don't see 
this as a requirement, though, given the low cost of port-checking.

--Paul Hoffman

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