> On Jan 23, 2015, at 10:01 AM, Paul Hoffman <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> What is the problem with #2? IP fragmentation happens, and The Internet is 
> expected to work with it. That is, of what possible value is "inform their 
> customers"?

The Internet has unfortunately decreed that Fragmentation Does Not Work with 
IPv4, and Really Does Not Work with IPv6.

This will cause timeouts until the resolver realizes it should use a smaller 
EDNS0 MTU and in that case, the resolver will failover to TCP for that query, 
which some in the DNS community view as anathema...


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