Re: Last Call: 'Linklocal Multicast Name Resolution (LLMNR)' to Proposed Standard

[Bill Manning <bmanning at karoshi.com>]

On Aug 31, 2005, at 2:25, Peter Dambier wrote:

> Russ Allbery wrote:
> > Margaret Wasserman <margaret at thingmagic.com> writes:
> > > Other than a few minor issues that are being dealt with in a -43 
> > > update,
> > > I don't think that anyone has raised a blocking technical issue with 
> > > the
> > > LLMNR specification during this IETF LC.  If you (or anyone else) has
> > > intended to raise a blocking technical issue, either with LLMNR 
> > > itself
> > > or with its ability to coexist with mDNS, please make that clearer to
> > > me.
>
> Sorry I overlooked this:
>
> I dont count 25% of the root server traffic a minor issue.
> With 90% of root server traffic used to be for localhost and with
> 25% of root server traffic already for local, we are looking into
> a major DoS attack. This might overload ISPs DNS servers it might
> even bring the root servers down if they let it free!

	i'm going to have to raise the point that Peters "root-server" system
	is his private "walled-garden" and not representative of the Internet's
	authoritative root servers.   Just for clarification.

--bill


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