Re: repeating records

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

Mark.Andrews@isc.org writes:
> You as a implementor are not in a position to say if a given increase
> in traffic is minor or not as you do not have enough details of the
> conditions underwhich the transmission is taking place.

Of course, Andrews thinks that he's an exception to this rule; that he
is in a position to say that BIND 8's AXFR glue repetition is a massive
waste of bandwidth; that it was irresponsible of the BIND company to
ignore this crucial issue for so many years; that all implementors must
carefully consider the consequences before repeating BIND 8's mistake.

I'm looking forward to draft-bindcompany-gzip9-00.txt, which says that
all DNS software distribution through tar.gz format SHOULD use the -9
option to gzip, and draft-bindcompany-logging-00.txt, which says that
all UNIX DNS software SHOULD support logging to files as an efficient
alternative to syslog.

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

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