This version addresses comments received during WGLC. The authors have been trying to be diligent about addressing comments as they come in (both on-list, and some in in-person conversations), and so there weren't very many outstanding issues. There are also implementations, and so experience showing that the concept / solution works. W
On Thu, Aug 8, 2019 at 6:07 PM <[email protected]> wrote: > > > A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts > directories. > This draft is a work item of the Domain Name System Operations WG of the IETF. > > Title : Serving Stale Data to Improve DNS Resiliency > Authors : David C Lawrence > Warren "Ace" Kumari > Puneet Sood > Filename : draft-ietf-dnsop-serve-stale-06.txt > Pages : 12 > Date : 2019-08-08 > > Abstract: > This draft defines a method (serve-stale) for recursive resolvers to > use stale DNS data to avoid outages when authoritative nameservers > cannot be reached to refresh expired data. It updates the definition > of TTL from [RFC1034], [RFC1035], and [RFC2181] to make it clear that > data can be kept in the cache beyond the TTL expiry and used for > responses when a refreshed answer is not readily available. One of > the motivations for serve-stale is to make the DNS more resilient to > DoS attacks, and thereby make them less attractive as an attack > vector. > > > The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is: > https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-dnsop-serve-stale/ > > There are also htmlized versions available at: > https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-dnsop-serve-stale-06 > https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-dnsop-serve-stale-06 > > A diff from the previous version is available at: > https://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-ietf-dnsop-serve-stale-06 > > > Please note that it may take a couple of minutes from the time of submission > until the htmlized version and diff are available at tools.ietf.org. > > Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP at: > ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/ > > _______________________________________________ > DNSOP mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop -- I don't think the execution is relevant when it was obviously a bad idea in the first place. This is like putting rabid weasels in your pants, and later expressing regret at having chosen those particular rabid weasels and that pair of pants. ---maf _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
