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best quote in the piece: It's too early to make guesses about the success of this effort at the IETF, but Paul Vixie, well known as the original author of the
by dschobel 17y ago
best quote in the piece:
It's too early to make guesses about the success of this effort at the IETF, but Paul Vixie, well known as the original author of the BIND DNS software and no less for his strong opinions, set the tone in a message to the IETF DNSEXT mailing list. "if we're going to add client identity to the query, can we do so in a more general way? i'd like to know lat-long, country, isp, language, and adult/child."
- roc 17y agoShame he didn't work an "a/s/l" joke in there.
- boredguy8 17y agoReading the comment, I think he did.
- electromagnetic 17y agoMy IP can track me to within the city I live in, I think it does 100 times better than any A/S/L answer ever did.
- jws 17y agoIs there really any privacy preserved by concealing the IP of a DNS query? The next thing you are going to do is contact the resulting host (probably controlled by the same people as the DNS server) with your IP in the sender IP field. I suppose one could imagine a situation where a user is using some sort of anonymizer for their HTTP traffic, but not their DNS. DNS anonymizers are trival. Just don't implement this feature, or I suspect your client resolver code could prefill the RR with a bogus entry. I've run my own DNS servers for years with the side effect that the authoritative DNS servers and their slaves get to see my IP when I query. They sky has not fallen.
- mike-cardwell 17y ago"The next thing you are going to do is contact the resulting host" Incorrect assumption. DNS pre-fetching. See: https://secure.grepular.com/DNS_Prefetch_Exposure_on_Thunderbird_and_Webmail https://secure.grepular.com/DNS_Prefetch_Exposure_on_Thunder...