Re: [DNSOP] definitions of "public DNS Service"

2020-05-22 Thread Paul Vixie
On Friday, 22 May 2020 21:59:11 UTC Bill Woodcock wrote: > > On May 22, 2020, at 3:38 AM, Paul Vixie wrote: > > ... > > > > these services aren't public in any way, and should not be described as > > public. they are operated privately for private purposes > > True of Google and Cloudflare, not

Re: [DNSOP] definitions of "public DNS Service"

2020-05-22 Thread dagon
On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 10:55:34AM +1000, George Michaelson wrote: > My Colleague George Kuo asked me for definitions of public DNS > service. not "public DNS" but the trigram "public DNS service" Is there room for this bike: 1) Policy: A "public DNS service" is a full DNS speaker outside of

Re: [DNSOP] Second Working Group Last Call for: Message Digest for DNS Zones

2020-05-22 Thread Tim Wicinski
Michael Thanks for reviewing the -06 changes and thanks for dropping your objections. I will work with the authors on cleaning up the text. As for your comments on Standards Track, as a chair and not a chair, I have moved back toward not making this Standards Track, but Informational. I will need

Re: [DNSOP] definitions of "public DNS Service"

2020-05-22 Thread Bill Woodcock
> On May 22, 2020, at 3:38 AM, Paul Vixie wrote: > > On Friday, 22 May 2020 00:55:34 UTC George Michaelson wrote: >> My Colleague George Kuo asked me for definitions of public DNS >> service. not "public DNS" but the trigram "public DNS service" >> >> Colloquially we understand this reasonably

Re: [DNSOP] Second Working Group Last Call for: Message Digest for DNS Zones

2020-05-22 Thread Michael StJohns
Hi - With the change to remove ZONEMD from the calculation (apparently in -06), I no longer have any objections related to future proofing. But, with the change, the text needs some additional clean up. Instead of the current section 3 - use something like this: >> 3. Updating the Zone for Z

Re: [DNSOP] Glue is not optional, but sometimes it *is* sufficient...

2020-05-22 Thread John Levine
In article you write: >So it seems compared the other DNS problems, this is pretty much >non-existing. It seems to me it's more a policy issue than a technical one. It's technically trivial for any zone manager to compare the glue in the zone with the delegated entries and see what's different.

Re: [DNSOP] definitions of "public DNS Service"

2020-05-22 Thread Tony Finch
I think despite what Paul H. said this is already covered in RFC 8499: Open resolver: A full-service resolver that accepts and processes queries from any (or nearly any) client. This is sometimes also called a "public resolver", although the term "public resolver" is used mo

Re: [DNSOP] Glue is not optional, but sometimes it *is* sufficient...

2020-05-22 Thread Tony Finch
Shumon Huque wrote: > > Here's the announcement of that change from Verisign (January 2010): > > https://lists.dns-oarc.net/pipermail/dns-operations/2010-January/004841.html That's the one! - point 2 was what I was thinking of. The way they handle glue under domains that are on hold is very trick

Re: [DNSOP] Glue is not optional, but sometimes it *is* sufficient...

2020-05-22 Thread Paul Wouters
On Fri, 22 May 2020, Joe Abley wrote: It'd be interesting to continue this kind of experiment over time and see where the success rate for those queries is trending. Although the 2010 announcement email listed only 2829 out of what? 70M domains? And that was before DNSSEC and servers like unb

Re: [DNSOP] definitions of "public DNS Service"

2020-05-22 Thread Andrew Campling
On Friday, 22 May 2020 02:38 Paul Vixie wrote: > > On Friday, 22 May 2020 00:55:34 UTC George Michaelson wrote: >> My Colleague George Kuo asked me for definitions of public DNS >> service. not "public DNS" but the trigram "public DNS service" >> >> Colloquially we understand this reasonably wel

Re: [DNSOP] Glue is not optional, but sometimes it *is* sufficient...

2020-05-22 Thread Shumon Huque
On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 10:52 AM Joe Abley wrote: > On 21 May 2020, at 16:07, Warren Kumari wrote: > > > What does all of this *mean*? > > .. > > .. > > .. > > Sorry, I haven't a clue, other than maybe: > > The DNS is weird. > > In your experiment it seems clear that all the glue records you are

Re: [DNSOP] Glue is not optional, but sometimes it *is* sufficient...

2020-05-22 Thread John R Levine
On Fri, 22 May 2020, Joe Abley wrote: I think that some of the things you have been looking at concern orphan glue, John -- glue records that have been promoted to authoritative, signed RRSets in the TLD zone following the removal of a zone cut. I think what Warren is talking about is the beha

Re: [DNSOP] Glue is not optional, but sometimes it *is* sufficient...

2020-05-22 Thread Joe Abley
On 21 May 2020, at 16:07, Warren Kumari wrote: > What does all of this *mean*? > .. > .. > .. > Sorry, I haven't a clue, other than maybe: > The DNS is weird. In your experiment it seems clear that all the glue records you are looking for are being returned from the involved authority-only serv

Re: [DNSOP] Glue is not optional, but sometimes it *is* sufficient...

2020-05-22 Thread Shumon Huque
On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 10:44 AM Joe Abley wrote: > Hi Tony, > > On 22 May 2020, at 08:47, Tony Finch wrote: > > > John R Levine wrote: > >> > >> A week or two ago I scannned TLD zone files to see how many signed A > and > >> records there were. Quite a lot, most looks to be orphan glue i

Re: [DNSOP] Glue is not optional, but sometimes it *is* sufficient...

2020-05-22 Thread Joe Abley
Hi Tony, On 22 May 2020, at 08:47, Tony Finch wrote: > John R Levine wrote: >> >> A week or two ago I scannned TLD zone files to see how many signed A and >> records there were. Quite a lot, most looks to be orphan glue in Afilias >> zones that they didn't delete after the registered zon

Re: [DNSOP] Glue is not optional, but sometimes it *is* sufficient...

2020-05-22 Thread Joe Abley
Hi John, On 21 May 2020, at 17:41, John Levine wrote: > In article > you > write: >> What if you *only* have glue, and no authoritative answer / server? >> Can I register example.com, put in www.example.com A 192.0.2.1 as >> glue, and not bother with this whole annoying authoritative server >

Re: [DNSOP] Glue is not optional, but sometimes it *is* sufficient...

2020-05-22 Thread Andrew Sullivan
[ObDisclaimer: I work for ISOC, but don't speak for them.] On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 09:24:51AM -0400, John R Levine wrote: I believe that the policy is to remove orphan glue, and the glue in the Afilias zones is due to software bugs. It's not just .org, it's also ..info and .mobi and other zone

Re: [DNSOP] Glue is not optional, but sometimes it *is* sufficient...

2020-05-22 Thread John R Levine
On Fri, 22 May 2020, Tony Finch wrote: I vaguely remember a policy change in .com and .net years ago when they stopped including orphan glue in the zones. Was this to do with prep work for DNSSEC? I'm slightly surprised .org didn't follow suit. I believe that the policy is to remove orphan glue

Re: [DNSOP] Glue is not optional, but sometimes it *is* sufficient...

2020-05-22 Thread Tony Finch
John R Levine wrote: > > A week or two ago I scannned TLD zone files to see how many signed A and > records there were. Quite a lot, most looks to be orphan glue in Afilias > zones that they didn't delete after the registered zone went away. I vaguely remember a policy change in .com and .n

Re: [DNSOP] Glue is not optional, but sometimes it *is* sufficient...

2020-05-22 Thread Andrew Sullivan
[ObDisclaim: I work for the Internet Society, but I'm not speaking for them.] On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 05:51:37PM -0400, Warren Kumari wrote: These IPs are only in the ADDITIONAL section - they should not be used as answers. Are you quite sure they're not getting used as answers though? Are yo