Re: [DNSOP] Working Group Last Call for draft-ietf-dnsop-qdcount-is-one

2024-02-20 Thread Niall O'Reilly
On 20 Feb 2024, at 11:55, jab...@strandkip.nl wrote: > That is some good, arcane DNS knowledge right there, Niall, I like it! 8-) > [...] > Perhaps it's worth making it even more clear that this is just a provision > for AXFR responses by specifying the QTYPE? Something like: > > DNS Zone Tr

Re: [DNSOP] Working Group Last Call for draft-ietf-dnsop-qdcount-is-one

2024-02-20 Thread Niall O'Reilly
On 15 Feb 2024, at 15:57, Suzanne Woolf wrote: > The qdcount draft is brief and straightforward and very welcome. I think it would help, for completeness, and the better to support the inexperienced reader of the DNS scriptures, to include mention of RFC5936 (AXFR) in the "brief summary of the g

Re: [DNSOP] Meaning of lame delegation

2023-04-13 Thread Niall O'Reilly
On 12 Apr 2023, at 20:33, Patrik Fältström wrote: > And if you use anycast, where some of the servers in the anycast cloud > respond and some do not? On 12 Apr 2023, at 20:37, Joe Abley wrote: > This is not a distinction that matters This, and independently of whether > you consider lameness

Re: [DNSOP] Meaning of lame delegation

2023-04-12 Thread Niall O'Reilly
On 10 Apr 2023, at 20:42, Mats Dufberg wrote: Delegation is an entity consisting of a set of name servers and, in some cases, glue address records. One part of the delegation is to provide the path to the child zone content. While this may be a convenient way to consider things in an administ

Re: [DNSOP] [Ext] I-D Action: draft-ietf-dnsop-resolver-information-01.txt

2020-02-17 Thread Niall O'Reilly
On 12 Feb 2020, at 16:48, Paul Hoffman wrote: Good call. Would it make both parts clearer if the introduction instead said: Because the information returned in this protocol only applies to recursive resolvers, servers that are acting as both authoritative servers and recursive reso

Re: [DNSOP] [lau...@miscnote.net: difference between dns spoofing and dns hijacking?]

2018-07-31 Thread Niall O'Reilly
On 24 Jul 2018, at 9:44, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: > Some work for draft-ietf-dnsop-terminology-ter? Define spoofing, > poisoning and hijacking? I think it's arguable either way whether to go for a -ter edition or to bring out a companion document with its scope restricted to abuses, attacks, a

Re: [DNSOP] Review of draft-ietf-dnsop-terminology-bis-08

2017-12-21 Thread Niall O'Reilly
in a "naming system" without a single common root. I'ld be surprised, because of what I understood of how the development of 7719 was approached, to learn that 7719bis can be permitted to revise a foundational document such as 1034. I may be mistaken in this. Best regards, Ni

Re: [DNSOP] Review of draft-ietf-dnsop-terminology-bis-08

2017-12-21 Thread Niall O'Reilly
"Bailiwick" would give sufficient clarity without unduly constraining the style of future authors. I hope this helps. Best wishes for Christmas and the New Year, and apologies for being late for Hannukah. Niall O'Reilly signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ DNSOP mailing list DNSOP@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop

Re: [DNSOP] Please review in terminology-bis: In-bailiwick, Out-of-bailiwick, In-domain, Sibling domain

2017-12-21 Thread Niall O'Reilly
On 19 Dec 2017, at 10:08, Martin Hoffmann wrote: > Except that "child zone" should probably be "subordinate zones" or > something similar to also include (great)*grandchildren. If "ancestor" were acceptable, then the natural counterpart would be

Re: [DNSOP] Review of draft-ietf-dnsop-terminology-bis-08

2017-12-21 Thread Niall O'Reilly
se a domain name are printed or read left to right, from the most specific (lowest, farthest from the root) to the least specific (highest, closest to the root). Best regards, Niall O'Reilly signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature _

Re: [DNSOP] Working Group Last Call draft-ietf-dnsop-refuse-any

2016-11-29 Thread Niall O'Reilly
On 28 Nov 2016, at 20:00, Edward Lewis wrote: > Please don't use the word random, not even in quotes, in this context. +1 A good word might be "arbitrary" (NL: willekeurig). Niall signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ DNSOP m

Re: [DNSOP] draft-jabley-dnsop-ordered-answers

2015-11-05 Thread Niall O'Reilly
On Thu, 05 Nov 2015 13:26:22 +, Ray Bellis wrote: > > IMHO, if a clarification is needed, it's that a client that depends on > the order of the RRsets in an answer MUST NOT do so. Wouldn't it be a simpler clarification to say that a client MUST NOT depend on the order of the RRsets in an

Re: [DNSOP] New Version Notification for draft-fanf-dnsop-rfc2317bis-00.txt (fwd)

2015-10-13 Thread Niall O'Reilly
On Tue, 13 Oct 2015 22:20:50 +0100, Tony Finch wrote: > > The first-last convention has the minor advantage of accommodating > non-CIDR delegations or perversely-fragmented CIDR ones such as /26, 2x/26, /26, with a single organization responsible for the middle pair of /26, and otherwise no

Re: [DNSOP] I-D Action: draft-ietf-dnsop-dns-terminology-01.txt

2015-05-01 Thread Niall O'Reilly
t; > Well, effectively maybe not. If a resolver "sticks" on the child, > then the delegation won't move regardless. ISTM that in such a case, the resolver is ignoring the updated/(re)moved delegation, rather than that the delegation hasn't moved. Niall O'Reilly

Re: [DNSOP] I-D Action: draft-ietf-dnsop-dns-terminology-01.txt

2015-05-01 Thread Niall O'Reilly
t; > Well, effectively maybe not. If a resolver "sticks" on the child, > then the delegation won't move regardless. ISTM that in such a case, the resolver is ignoring the updated/(re)moved delegation, rather than that the delegation hasn't moved. Niall O'Reilly

Re: [DNSOP] DNS Terminology: Glue

2015-03-13 Thread Niall O'Reilly
n do so here, I'll follow up in my response to the questionnaire mentioned by Sandoche (Message-ID: <54fea0bf.4010...@afnic.fr>) at https://fr.surveymonkey.com/r/zonemaster. Best regards, Niall O'Reilly ___ DNSOP mailin

[DNSOP] DNS Terminology: Glue

2015-03-12 Thread Niall O'Reilly
ink that placing the definition of glue in the scope of "the message" rather than in that of the zone data is likely to lead to confusion. Best regards, Niall O'Reilly ___ DNSOP mailing list DNSOP@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop

Re: [DNSOP] comments on dnsop-qname-minimisation-02

2015-03-12 Thread Niall O'Reilly
ant" or "clumsy"; "long-winded" or "concise") isn't what's needed here. I suggest any one of "presented", "declared", or "specified". ATB Niall O'Reilly ___ DNSOP mailing list DNSOP@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop

Re: [DNSOP] I-D Action: draft-ietf-dnsop-qname-minimisation-02.txt

2015-03-09 Thread Niall O'Reilly
> Yes, that is how I understand it. Can someone else confirm or deny? Gladly. Confirmed for practical purposes in the majority of cases. Best regards, Niall O'Reilly ___ DNSOP mailing list DNSOP@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop

Re: [DNSOP] IPR disclosure related to draft-ietf-dnsop-root-loopback

2015-02-27 Thread Niall O'Reilly
xt of the patent: > > http://www.google.com/patents/US8874790 This was filed in 2011. By that time, I expect that there must have been a considerable body of prior art. Niall O'Reilly ___ DNSOP mailing list DNSOP@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop

Re: [DNSOP] New version of the DNS terminology draft

2015-01-27 Thread Niall O'Reilly
chitecture providing distributed maintenance, resilience, and loose coherency for this database; and - a simple query-response protocol (as mentioned in the current draft) implementing this architecture. IHTH Niall O'Reilly ___ DNSOP

Re: [DNSOP] New version of the DNS terminology draft

2015-01-21 Thread Niall O'Reilly
top node of the zone down to leaf nodes or nodes above cuts around the bottom edge of the zone." Best regards, Niall O'Reilly ___ DNSOP mailing list DNSOP@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop

Re: [DNSOP] Comments on draft-ietf-dnsop-qname-minimisation

2015-01-09 Thread Niall O'Reilly
that, according to RFC1178, "dk" is an undesirable choice of hostname. Careful, but admittedly not exhaustive, searching in the Scriptures hasn't led me to discover any reason to accept that it's "not a hostname". Best regards, Niall O'Reilly ___

[DNSOP] Hostname (was: Comments on draft-ietf-dnsop-qname-minimisation)

2015-01-08 Thread Niall O'Reilly
two labels for a hostname is introduced. I'll be glad to learn that I've missed something. > i am never cheerful about things that work differently depending on > what OS, what libraries, what browser, what ISP, or what search lists > and/or what dns content is "more lo

Re: [DNSOP] Comments on draft-ietf-dnsop-qname-minimisation

2015-01-08 Thread Niall O'Reilly
At Thu, 08 Jan 2015 23:23:36 +1100, Mark Andrews wrote: > > It is after 15 Jul 85. "dk" is no longer a hostname. There is > just a node in the DNS tree with a A record attached which has no > defined meaning. > > Mark Thanks, Mark. RFC 1034 (November 1987, but I'm sure you know that) uses

Re: [DNSOP] Comments on draft-ietf-dnsop-qname-minimisation

2015-01-08 Thread Niall O'Reilly
At Sun, 04 Jan 2015 14:15:17 -0800, Paul Vixie wrote: > > also noting, dotless domains exist. dotless hostnames (for mail, web, > etc) by def'n do not. I don't understand. Such a definition seems to be cheerfully violated in the case of http://dk/ Best regard

Re: [DNSOP] I-D Action: draft-ietf-dnsop-dnssec-key-timing-05.txt

2014-09-23 Thread Niall O'Reilly
esponding valid ZSK. Perfectly clear; thanks. Best regards, Niall O'Reilly ___ DNSOP mailing list DNSOP@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop

Re: [DNSOP] I-D Action: draft-ietf-dnsop-dnssec-key-timing-05.txt

2014-09-23 Thread Niall O'Reilly
ove and would appreciate clarification. The noun clause which is apparently intended as the object of the infinitive "to ensure" contains two finite verbs. Perhaps a sub-ordinating conjunction has been omitted? Best regards, Niall O'Reilly ___

Re: [DNSOP] DNS privacy draft

2013-12-01 Thread Niall O'Reilly
> On 1 Dec 2013, at 21:44, Paul Hoffman wrote: > > padding (sending random queries from time to time) a better word might be "chaff" ___ DNSOP mailing list DNSOP@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop

Re: [DNSOP] Changes since draft-ietf-dnsop-rfc4641bis-13

2012-10-23 Thread Niall O'Reilly
On 23 Oct 2012, at 14:29, Miek Gieben wrote: > The paragraph is a *suggestion* in a *bcp*. I don't see what point you're trying to make with this remark. Indeed, if the suggestion is not congruent with current practice, it seems to me that it very much ought not to belon

Re: [DNSOP] rfc4641bis: ZSK-roll-frequency

2010-01-23 Thread Niall O'Reilly
Alex Bligh wrote: --On 22 January 2010 09:13:22 -0800 Paul Hoffman wrote: - Regular rolling can give you a false sense of security about your rolling process How can you have any sense of security about your rolling process if you don't exercise it? Why do people think the opposite of

Re: [DNSOP] new draft about idn tld variants implementation

2009-10-16 Thread Niall O'Reilly
Alfred � wrote: Another point: The draft is speaking abut "DNAME _in_ the root". According to my surficial knowledge, DNAME RRs 'live' at the _apex_ of the zone that shall be redirected, not at the delegation point -- or did I miss something? Within each zone, there may be at most one DNAME RR,

Re: [DNSOP] I-D ACTION:draft-licanhuang-dnsop-distributeddns-04.txt

2008-06-26 Thread Niall O'Reilly
n. This doesn't help your argument. Best regards, Niall O'Reilly University College Dublin IT Services PGP key ID: AE995ED9 (see www.pgp.net) Fingerprint: 23DC C6DE 8874 2432 2BE0 3905 7987 E48D AE99 5ED9 PGP.sig Descrip

Re: [DNSOP] Public Suffix List

2008-06-12 Thread Niall O'Reilly
he at will). Best regards, Niall O'Reilly University College Dublin IT Services PGP key ID: AE995ED9 (see www.pgp.net) Fingerprint: 23DC C6DE 8874 2432 2BE0 3905 7987 E48D AE99 5ED9 PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally sign

Re: [DNSOP] draft-licanhuang-dnsop-urnresolution-00

2007-12-04 Thread Niall O'Reilly
On 3 Dec 2007, at 20:44, Mohsen Souissi wrote: I have read the I-D as well and I second Joe's point of view and his arguments [...] +1 On 4 Dec 2007, at 05:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Full IPv4 utilization and increasing use of IPv6 is completely orthonginal to DNS label exaustio

Re: [DNSOP] Re: draft-licanhuang-dnsop-distributeddns-02

2007-11-01 Thread Niall O'Reilly
owed to apply a domain name when organizations or persons that do not provider the corresponding contents and just want to sell the domain name for profit. Surely this is about naming policy or registry policy, and out of scope for DNSOP ? Best regards,

Re: [DNSOP] I-D ACTION:draft-regnauld-ns-communication-00.txt

2006-12-21 Thread Niall O'Reilly
On 20 Dec 2006, at 17:39, Paul Vixie wrote: the attached paper was published last year but i've not got around to writing an I-D for it nor releasing the software that implements it. i have shared it privately with a number of folks, and it's in fairly wide use among the folks ISC trades