On 16/12/16 13:48, Andrew Newton wrote:

> Both I and the IETF have been down the UDP as a domain availability
> service road before. See RFC 5144. Given that it rarely comes up in
> these conversations is probably a good indicator that such an idea is
> not successful.

That wasn't successful because DCHK and IRIS aren't worth the pain to
implement, not that the idea isn't essentially sound.

Better would be something akin to Nominet's DAC protocol:

http://registrars.nominet.uk/namespace/uk/registration-and-domain-management/query-tools/dac/instructions

There's no need to over-engineer this stuff: use a persistent connection
and a simple wire protocol capable of pipelining requests to and
responses from the service, and a few custom request types for querying
the status of the connection and doing keep-alive.

K.

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