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

[Mark Andrews]

In message <23FD4593-45CD-4A45-8A59-91D0D6C3A573 at hopcount.ca>, Joe Abley writes
:
> On 2010-02-04, at 09:05, Mark Andrews wrote:
> 
> > This issue was identified over a decade ago [1] and there is a standards
> > based solution.  See RFC 3542 and IPV6_USE_MIN_MTU, which was
> > published May 2003.
> 
> I think by "standards based" you mean "socket-level".
> 
> I don't see any violation in standards in the approach we've taken with L.
> 
> Joe

I was mainly commenting on Geoff's comment which present a problem
which shouldn't be a issue anymore.

Adjusting the MTU affects more than just IPv6 but isn't itself a error
though may not be optimal.

Mark
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