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Just a thought, below:<br>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 14/06/13 2:41, Ronald F. Guilmette
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In message <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:51B9FB6A.1090701@tiggee.com"><51B9FB6A.1090701@tiggee.com></a>,
David Miller <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:dmiller@tiggee.com"><dmiller@tiggee.com></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">This could lead to wrong headed statements like, "Yes, we sent X GB of
traffic at your network.
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Yes.
Last night I reconsidered at some length the scheme I put forward yesterday.
(Please note that I am very deliberately calling it merely a "scheme"
rather than a "proposal", because I do not think that it rises to the
level of that honorable title yet.)
Basically, please ignore everything I put forward yesterday and substitute
instead the following in place of all that...
1) A new DNS/UDP packet/message type is defined. This new message
when sent from from machine A to machine B informs B that A would
really really appreciate it if B would cease and desist from sending
anything other than HIGHLY ABBREVIATED (12 byte) UDP DNS response
packets to the IP address of A for a period of 30 seconds. (Said
highly abbreviated DNS/UDP response packets would all have the TC
bit set.)
In a hypothetical revised future DNS RFC it would be said that all
DNS servers attached to the public internet MUST be capable of
properly receiving, decoding and obeying any and all such client
requests.
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I wonder what DNS-servers running older versions of the SW will
respond to that? If they silently discard the packet, no problem. If
however they respond with refused or anything else, you create your
own storm.<br>
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Best regards
Sten Carlsen
No improvements come from shouting:
"MALE BOVINE MANURE!!!"
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