Re: [dnsext] I-D Action:draft-ietf-dnsext-dns-tcp-requirements-01.txt

[Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org>]

In message <28272.1256747157@nsa.vix.com>, Paul Vixie writes:
> > From: Alfred =?hp-roman8?B?SM5uZXM=?= <ah@TR-Sys.de>
> > Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:26:25 +0100 (MEZ)
> > 
> > "attempt to address"  !=  "achieve adherence"    :-)
> > 
> > It's still a long way to go.  Some folks need steadily repeated
> > sermon until they are going to believe, isn't it?   :-)
> 
> "hello mr. middlebox vendor.  since we neglected to inform you that the
> traffic you'll carry may include fragments and that you can't really 
> predict maximum packet size based on the UDP port numbers on a packet,
> we agree that it's perfectly reasonable that you totally fscked it up.
> however, in an RFC you never heard of, we did finally get around to
> asking that you rev your software to stop fscking up our traffic, so
> could you please slot some engineering resources for it even though it
> will not result in higher sales nor will failing to do it result in
> lower sales?  thanks in advance!"
 
Dear mr. middlebox vendor.  Please stop lying in your DHCP responses
by adverting that your boxes contain a DNS server when they actually
contain a DNS proxy and a poorly implemented one at that.

-- 
Mark Andrews, ISC
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