Re: Fingerprinting DNS implementations.

["D. J. Bernstein" <djb@cr.yp.to>]

I posted fingerprint data a year ago: http://cr.yp.to/surveys/dns1.html

Chris Thompson writes:
> I'm wondering why he thinks this is a DNS protocols issue
> rather than a DNS operations one.

The IETF often creates interoperability problems by extending protocols
in a way that breaks existing software. Today's ``borderline'' packets
could be tomorrow's protocol extensions; it's important to document how
those packets are handled.

---D. J. Bernstein, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics,
Statistics, and Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago

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