[dns-operations] Cloudflare TYPE65283

Ralf Weber dns at fl1ger.de
Tue Mar 28 04:52:46 UTC 2023


Moin!

On 28 Mar 2023, at 9:57, Paul Ebersman wrote:

> viktor> Do the CPU and packet size reductions justify the additional
> viktor> protocol complexity?
>
> As IPv6 slowly creeps up in usage amongst folks not well versed in PMTUD
> and such (particularly more and more smaller middleware/firewall vendors
> or crap consumer routers), I think keeping response packet size down
> wherever we can is prudent.

Not disagreeing, but shouldn’t IPv6 make this easier as we know when to
switch to TCP (1232 bytes as 1280 bytes of IPv6 payload are guranteed)?
Sure you would see more TCP, but there would be no breakage.

So long
-Ralf
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Ralf Weber



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