RFC 9250 · PROPOSED STANDARD · 2022

DNS over Dedicated QUIC Connections

Overview

RFC 9250, “DNS over Dedicated QUIC Connections”, is a Proposed Standard document published in May 2022 by C. Huitema, S. Dickinson, A. Mankin. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.

Abstract

This document describes the use of QUIC to provide transport confidentiality for DNS. The encryption provided by QUIC has similar properties to those provided by TLS, while QUIC transport eliminates the head-of-line blocking issues inherent with TCP and provides more efficient packet-loss recovery than UDP. DNS over QUIC (DoQ) has privacy properties similar to DNS over TLS (DoT) specified in RFC 7858, and latency characteristics similar to classic DNS over UDP. This specification describes the use of DoQ as a general-purpose transport for DNS and includes the use of DoQ for stub to recursive, recursive to authoritative, and zone transfer scenarios.

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What “Proposed Standard” means

An entry-level standards-track specification: stable, peer-reviewed and a solid basis for implementation, though it may still evolve before becoming an Internet Standard.

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