Hi DNS people, I've recently been looking at SCTP and am wondering if it might have uses for DNS.
Without having looked too long at it, it appears that the 4-way handshake would allow a server to actually have long standing and pretty spoof-protected connections with clients, while protecting the server from SYN flooding. The frame oriented mode is very well suited to DNS, which prevents the 'head of line' blocking inherent to TCP. The SCTP people do appear to have thought of DNS, if I read things well you can pass a *DNS* name of your host to the remote so it knows all your IP addresses in one go. Take all this with a grain of salt, I'm no SCTP expert. But I think it merits looking in to. Regards, bert -- http://www.PowerDNS.com Open source, database driven DNS Software http://lartc.org Linux Advanced Routing & Traffic Control HOWTO . dnsop resources:_____________________________________________________ web user interface: http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~llynch/dnsop.html mhonarc archive: http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~llynch/dnsop/index.html
