To:
"Hollenbeck, Scott" <shollenbeck@verisign.com>
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"'ietf-provreg@cafax.se'" <ietf-provreg@cafax.se>
From:
Jens Wagner <jwagner@key-systems.net>
Date:
Mon, 20 Oct 2003 18:38:47 +0200
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Subject:
Re: [ietf-provreg] EPP over UDP for Domain Availability Checking?
Hollenbeck, Scott wrote: >I just spent a few minutes writing client and server software in perl to >send and receive EPP <check> commands and responses. It's very doable. >Does anyone think that they might find it useful to have a documented way to >use EPP over UDP for domain availability checking? > >I'm thinking that registries might find it useful to provide a UDP service >for high-volume, no-session-required domain checking. People that want only >availability information might find a UDP-based client more useful than >whois. > >-Scott- > > Sure, but this does also simplify DoS attacks against registries that have to perform availability checks using their SQL backend. But it cannot hurt to have such a spec handy, even if for internal purposes only :-) Best regards, -jens