> On Feb 19, 2025, at 8:00 PM, Ben Schwartz <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> Hi DNSOP,
> 
> John Todd, Puneet Sood, and myself have just posted a new draft [1] with a 
> very simple premise: if you're sending queries to a resolver just to see if 
> you get a response, query "probe.resolver.arpa".  This name is (proposed to 
> be) guaranteed NXDOMAIN, and the purpose of the query is unambiguous to 
> someone inspecting the resolver logs.
> 
> This is an extremely straightforward proposal, but there are a few questions:
> 
> * Is this a Special Use Domain Name (as the -00 draft claims)?
> * Should this draft go to DNSOP or ADD?
> * Should we extend this concept to authoritative servers?
> * Name bikeshed.
> 
> We welcome your input.
> 
> --Ben Schwartz
> 
> [1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-sst-dnsop-probe-name/
> 
> P.S.  We wrote this before some recent discussion about names guaranteed not 
> to exist, which may be evidence that this could be useful.

Hi Ben,


A couple of comments on the document text:

> risk of implementation fingerprinting due to the distinctive QTYPE.


I think you mean QNAME here?


>    4) Are developers of caching domain name servers expected to make
>    their implementations recognize these names as special and treat them
>    differently? If so, how?
> 
>    No. This name is subject to ordinary caching logic.

This was unexpected, given that RFC 9462’s answer to SUDN question 4
was “yes” for the parent domain resolver.arpa.

(Reading section 8.2 of RFC 9462 I feel like there is some ambiguity 
whether it is talking about resolver.arpa or _dns.resolver.arpa)

DW

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