Re: Comments surrounding draft-iab-dns-applications-01

2011-07-07 Thread Joe Touch
On 7/5/2011 6:07 PM, Dave CROCKER wrote: On 7/5/2011 3:12 PM, Joe Touch wrote: The SRV record allows DNS resolvers to search for particular applications and underlying transports (for example, HTTP running over TLS, see [RFC2818]) and to learn the domain name and port where that service

Re: Comments surrounding draft-iab-dns-applications-01

2011-07-05 Thread Mark Andrews
In message alpine.bsf.2.00.1107042329060.89...@joyce.lan, John R. Levine wri tes: The naive approach of reversing the address, converting to nibbles and appending a suffix won't scale. For IPv6 if you did the reverse of /48, /52, /56, /60 and /64 prefixes, which matches delegation

Re: Comments surrounding draft-iab-dns-applications-01

2011-07-05 Thread Tony Finch
John R. Levine jo...@iecc.com wrote: DNSBLs already set the min pretty low, e.g. 150 sec for Spamhaus. Doesn't really matter how low it is if you have so many entries that they force out the useful ones. The really important records are the delegation chain NS records. It is not so necessary

Re: Comments surrounding draft-iab-dns-applications-01

2011-07-05 Thread Tony Finch
Mark Andrews ma...@isc.org wrote: DNS[WB]L's have never been a good fit to the DNS, rather they have not been a bad enough fit to require something better to be done. Oh come off it, they are just as good a fit to the DNS as reverse DNS is. The naive approach of reversing the address,

Re: Comments surrounding draft-iab-dns-applications-01

2011-07-05 Thread Tony Finch
Keith Moore mo...@network-heretics.com wrote: Yes, but rDNS PTR lookups always have been pretty much meaningless anyway, and will only get worse in IPv4 due to LSN. Reverse DNS for an LSN is just as informative as automatically populated reverse DNS (and much more convenient than a whois

Re: Comments surrounding draft-iab-dns-applications-01

2011-07-05 Thread Keith Moore
On Jul 5, 2011, at 6:58 AM, Tony Finch wrote: Keith Moore mo...@network-heretics.com wrote: Yes, but rDNS PTR lookups always have been pretty much meaningless anyway, and will only get worse in IPv4 due to LSN. Reverse DNS for an LSN is just as informative as automatically populated

Re: Comments surrounding draft-iab-dns-applications-01

2011-07-05 Thread John R. Levine
The naive approach of reversing the address, converting to nibbles and appending a suffix won't scale. I don't understand why the setup is OK for reverse DNS but not blacklists. One obvious reason is that the most widely used DNSBL server doesn't return NODATA vs. NXDOMAIN according to

Re: Comments surrounding draft-iab-dns-applications-01

2011-07-05 Thread Dave CROCKER
On 7/5/2011 3:56 AM, Tony Finch wrote: Mark Andrewsma...@isc.org wrote: DNS[WB]L's have never been a good fit to the DNS, rather they have not been a bad enough fit to require something better to be done. Oh come off it, they are just as good a fit to the DNS as reverse DNS is. The naive

Re: Comments surrounding draft-iab-dns-applications-01

2011-07-05 Thread John Levine
For an application that is likely to encounter a different IP address for essentially every query, across a very large number of queries, the only solution I see available is to use a different cache. Seems reasonable. I gather that there are already caches with the ability to partition

Re: Comments surrounding draft-iab-dns-applications-01

2011-07-05 Thread Dave CROCKER
On 7/5/2011 10:31 AM, John Levine wrote: For an application that is likely to encounter a different IP address for essentially every query, across a very large number of queries, the only solution I see available is to use a different cache. Seems reasonable. I gather that there are already

Re: Comments surrounding draft-iab-dns-applications-01

2011-07-05 Thread Tony Finch
Dave CROCKER d...@dcrocker.net wrote: For an application that is likely to encounter a different IP address for essentially every query, across a very large number of queries, the only solution I see available is to use a different cache. This has been operational common sense for many years.

Re: Comments surrounding draft-iab-dns-applications-01

2011-07-05 Thread Dave CROCKER
On 7/5/2011 10:59 AM, Tony Finch wrote: Dave CROCKERd...@dcrocker.net wrote: For an application that is likely to encounter a different IP address for essentially every query, across a very large number of queries, the only solution I see available is to use a different cache. This has

Re: DNSBLSs and caches, was Comments surrounding draft-iab-dns-applications-01

2011-07-05 Thread John Levine
I believe that the solution is to have the applications, themselves, distinguish the cache they are using (or the containing library). A blocklist app needs to use a different library/cache than a web browser. You could do it either way. Either you could adjust the MTAs to have a new parameter

Re: Comments surrounding draft-iab-dns-applications-01

2011-07-05 Thread Joe Touch
Hi, all, This doc also claims that: The SRV record allows DNS resolvers to search for particular applications and underlying transports (for example, HTTP running over TLS, see [RFC2818]) and to learn the domain name and port where that service resides in a given administrative

Re: Comments surrounding draft-iab-dns-applications-01

2011-07-05 Thread Dave CROCKER
On 7/5/2011 3:12 PM, Joe Touch wrote: The SRV record allows DNS resolvers to search for particular applications and underlying transports (for example, HTTP running over TLS, see [RFC2818]) and to learn the domain name and port where that service resides in a given administrative domain.

Re: Comments surrounding draft-iab-dns-applications-01

2011-07-04 Thread Martin Sustrik
On 04/29/2011 04:36 AM, John Levine wrote: So my advice would be to back up and write down in one or two sentences what problem this document is supposed to fix or at least describe, and then see how much of the rest of it might be salvaged. I was thinking of storing data in DNS and the

Re: Comments surrounding draft-iab-dns-applications-01

2011-07-04 Thread John R. Levine
So my advice would be to back up and write down in one or two sentences what problem this document is supposed to fix or at least describe, and then see how much of the rest of it might be salvaged. I was thinking of storing data in DNS and the document proved valuable to determine whether its

Re: Comments surrounding draft-iab-dns-applications-01

2011-07-04 Thread Mark Andrews
In message alpine.bsf.2.00.1107040940090.60...@joyce.lan, John R. Levine wr ites: So my advice would be to back up and write down in one or two sentences what problem this document is supposed to fix or at least describe, and then see how much of the rest of it might be salvaged. I was

Re: Comments surrounding draft-iab-dns-applications-01

2011-07-04 Thread John R. Levine
Reverse IPv6 caches well. You just can't pre-populate servers with PTR records for all 2^64 ptr records in a normal IPv6 subnet. You need to use tools that add records for nodes that actually exist. Those tools are a decade old now. Over in e-mail land, we've been pondering the behavior of

Re: Comments surrounding draft-iab-dns-applications-01

2011-07-04 Thread Mark Andrews
In message alpine.bsf.2.00.1107041959400.29...@joyce.lan, John R. Levine wri tes: Reverse IPv6 caches well. You just can't pre-populate servers with PTR records for all 2^64 ptr records in a normal IPv6 subnet. You need to use tools that add records for nodes that actually exist. Those

Re: Comments surrounding draft-iab-dns-applications-01

2011-07-04 Thread John R. Levine
Over in e-mail land, we've been pondering the behavior of spammers, who will likely hop to a different IPv6 address for every spam. If you do rDNS lookups, your cache will fill up with useless entries, maybe PTR, maybe NXDOMAIN, it hardly matters. DNSBLs and DNSWLs, if done the same way as they

Re: Comments surrounding draft-iab-dns-applications-01

2011-07-04 Thread Keith Moore
On Jul 4, 2011, at 8:23 PM, John R. Levine wrote: Reverse IPv6 caches well. You just can't pre-populate servers with PTR records for all 2^64 ptr records in a normal IPv6 subnet. You need to use tools that add records for nodes that actually exist. Those tools are a decade old now. Over

Re: Comments surrounding draft-iab-dns-applications-01

2011-07-04 Thread Mark Andrews
In message alpine.bsf.2.00.1107042151340.62...@joyce.lan, John R. Levine wri tes: Over in e-mail land, we've been pondering the behavior of spammers, who will likely hop to a different IPv6 address for every spam. If you do rDNS lookups, your cache will fill up with useless entries, maybe

Re: Comments surrounding draft-iab-dns-applications-01

2011-07-04 Thread John R. Levine
The naive approach of reversing the address, converting to nibbles and appending a suffix won't scale. For IPv6 if you did the reverse of /48, /52, /56, /60 and /64 prefixes, which matches delegation patterns along with NXDOMAIN synthesis, you would still be fine. You stop the search on

Re: Comments surrounding draft-iab-dns-applications-01

2011-07-03 Thread Edward Lewis
At 17:11 -0400 7/2/11, Danny McPherson wrote: ...that you meant to reference draft-iab-dns-applications-01 Oops. -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Edward Lewis NeuStarYou can leave a voice message at +1-571-434-5468 I'm overly

Re: Comments surrounding draft-iab-dns-applications-01

2011-07-02 Thread Danny McPherson
On Apr 28, 2011, at 10:40 AM, Edward Lewis wrote: These comments were sent to the IAB already. I was encouraged to send them to the general IETF list. This is mostly a re-posting of the comments, with one added paragraph (there's marker there). The referenced document is:

Re: Comments surrounding draft-iab-dns-applications-01

2011-04-28 Thread John Levine
It's hard to make comments on a document whose mission is not at all clear. The problem I have is that the document has a faulty baseline and incorrectly assesses extensions and variations. ... My experience with the DNS is nowhere near as deep as Ed's but having done my share of DNS hackery