[e2e] [unclassified] TCP improved closing strategies?
Dan McDonald
danmcd at sun.com
Wed Aug 12 20:26:25 PDT 2009
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 09:14:54PM -0400, David P. Reed wrote:
> I'm not sure whether it wouldn't be better to think through a non-TCP
> solution here. TCP is incredibly heavy duty for the purpose of doing a
> properly "secure" DNS transaction, which ultimately involves a single
> request-response in the most common case.
>
> And if you do, there is no reason why the server needs to maintain
> *connection* state at all - connections are for long term interactions.
>
> Am I missing something here?
I thought (and I'm not SecureDNS wizard) that SecureDNS packets often exceed
PathMTU for most of the Internet, and that you wanted segmentation *and*
retransmission covered.
Dan
More information about the end2end-interest
mailing list