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RFC 7816, "DNS Query Name Minimisation to Improve Privacy", March 2016
Note: This RFC has been obsoleted by RFC 9156
Source of RFC: dnsop (ops)
Errata ID: 4644
Status: Verified
Type: Technical
Publication Format(s) : TEXT
Reported By: Robert Edmonds
Date Reported: 2016-03-24
Verifier Name: Joel Jaeggli
Date Verified: 2017-03-29
Section 6 says:
QNAME minimisation can decrease performance in some cases -- for instance, for a deep domain name (like www.host.group.department.example.com, where host.group.department.example.com is hosted on example.com's name servers). Let's assume a resolver that knows only the name servers of .example. Without QNAME minimisation, it would send these .example name servers a query for www.host.group.department.example.com and immediately get a specific referral or an answer, without the need for more queries to probe for the zone cut. For such a name, a cold resolver with QNAME minimisation will, depending on how QNAME minimisation is implemented, send more queries, one per label. Once the cache is warm, there will be no difference with a traditional resolver. Actual testing is described in [Huque-QNAME-Min]. Such deep domains are especially common under ip6.arpa.
It should say:
QNAME minimisation can decrease performance in some cases -- for instance, for a deep domain name (like www.host.group.department.example.com, where host.group.department.example.com is hosted on example.com's name servers). Let's assume a resolver that knows only the name servers of .example.com. Without QNAME minimisation, it would send these .example.com name servers a query for www.host.group.department.example.com and immediately get a specific referral or an answer, without the need for more queries to probe for the zone cut. For such a name, a cold resolver with QNAME minimisation will, depending on how QNAME minimisation is implemented, send more queries, one per label. Once the cache is warm, there will be no difference with a traditional resolver. Actual testing is described in [Huque-QNAME-Min]. Such deep domains are especially common under ip6.arpa.
Notes:
Changed ".example" to ".example.com".