[dns-operations] Comparing TCP and UDP response times of root name servers

[Dobbins, Roland]

On Nov 21, 2012, at 8:06 AM, John Kristoff wrote:

> Technical barriers, funding issues or lack of demand perhaps?

All of the above, plus inertia, lack of awareness, perceived lack of need compared to UDP with individualized congestion-control mechanisms, et. al.

DCCP was proposed quite some time ago, and was implemented in some *NIX stacks; does anything at layer-7 actually make use of it?

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