[dns-operations] L-Root Maintenance 2010-01-27 1800 UTC - 2000 UTC

[Florian Weimer]

* Phil Regnauld:

> 	How likely is it that this will break completely with today's
> 	existing stateful inspection packet filters ?

The 2002 date I remembered was when I helped to bury SYN(+FIN)+data
for security reasons.  The issue is not so much stateful filters, but
stateless ones.  I suspect that many sites block funny flag
combinations because it's active by default if you do any form of TCP
normalization.