Tech report on FlagDay2020, fragmentation, EDNS, Truncation, TCP...

[Giovane C. M. Moura]

Folks,

A couple of months ago there was a lot of discussion about the Flag
Day2020 on this list.

Inspired on that, we wrote a technical report that we now release [0]
and that covers the authoritative server side of the story on
truncation, fragmentation, large messages, TCP fallback, and the Flag
Day uptake.

>From the abstract:

``[...] We analyze 114 billion queries/response pairs from more than 43k
autonomous systems, covering two months and a week period (2019 and
2020), collected at the authoritative servers of the .nl, the
country-code top-level domain of the Netherlands. We show that
fragmentation, and the problems that can follow fragmentation, rarely
occur at such authoritative servers. Further, we demonstrate that DNS
built-in defenses – use of truncation, EDNS0 buffer sizes, reduced
responses and TCP fall back – are effective to reduce fragmentation.
Last, we measure the uptake of the DNS flag day in 2020.``

Feedback is always welcome, as usual.

/giovane

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Givoane C. M. Moura
SIDN Labs


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https://www.sidnlabs.nl/downloads/4e5otgyyJap464iRzmZeN9/47f08b1511627967ff2280f014e0ff23/Fragmentation__truncation__and_timeouts_are_large_DNS_messages_falling_to_bits.pdf