Fwd: djbdns and EDNS?

Fwd: djbdns and EDNS?

[Stanley Lieber]

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> From: "D. J. Bernstein" <djb@cr.yp.to>
> Date: January 21, 2019 at 10:24:12 PM EST
> To: dns@list.cr.yp.to
> Subject: Re: djbdns and EDNS?
> 
> My understanding is that this "flag day" is an issue for some firewalls
> but not for any version of tinydns. https://dnsflagday.net/ says "This
> domain is going to work after the 2019 DNS flag day" for various tinydns
> servers that I've tested.
> 
> The bigger picture appears to be the following: There's a backlash
> against the insane level of complexity that ISC has added to DNS over
> many years, most importantly as part of DNSSEC. ISC is exploiting this
> as an excuse to get rid of very small chunks of code that handle
> interoperability with, e.g., firewalls that time out on EDNS queries.
> 
> ISC has a much longer history of threatening to damage interoperability,
> and in some cases actually damaging interoperability, usually without
> bothering to first obtain agreement on RFCs that specify a date after
> which the old behavior is prohibited. This doesn't mean that ISC is
> stupid enough to try to damage interoperability with something as widely
> deployed as tinydns.
> 
> ---Dan

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