Subject: [DNSOP] Simplified proposal on helping recursives with long round trip times to the root: draft-wkumari-dnsop-root-loopback

From: Paul Hoffman <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2014 15:42:40 -0700

Greetings again. Thank you to the people who gave us feedback on our earlier draft (draft-wkumari-dnsop-dist-root) saying that it needed a better defined use case and less grandiose claims of helping where it didn't really. Instead of continuing on that draft, we started a new one with has the narrower focus, a single goal, and clearer requirements.

Comments are appreciated. If the chairs want, we can talk about this at the upcoming meeting, particularly if there is discussion here before that.

--Paul Hoffman and Warren Kumari

> A new version of I-D, draft-wkumari-dnsop-root-loopback-00.txt
> has been successfully submitted by Paul Hoffman and posted to the
> IETF repository.
> 
> Name:		draft-wkumari-dnsop-root-loopback
> Revision:	00
> Title:		Decreasing Access Time to Root Servers by Running One on Loopback
> Document date:	2014-10-25
> Group:		Individual Submission
> Pages:		5
> URL:            http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-wkumari-dnsop-root-loopback-00.txt
> Status:         https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-wkumari-dnsop-root-loopback/
> Htmlized:       http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-wkumari-dnsop-root-loopback-00
> 
> 
> Abstract:
>   Some DNS recursive resolvers have longer-than-desired round trip
>   times to the closest DNS root server.  Such resolvers can greatly
>   decrease the rount trip time by running a copy of the full root zone
>   on a loopback address (such as 127.0.0.1).  This document shows how
>   to start and maintain such a copy of the root zone in a manner that
>   is secure for the operator of the recursive resolver and does not
>   pose a threat to other users of the DNS.