NDAA passed: Internet and Online Streaming Services Emergency Alert Study

Michael Thomas mike at mtcc.com
Sun Jan 3 22:29:05 UTC 2021


On 1/3/21 2:23 PM, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Michael Thomas" <mike at mtcc.com>
>>> Well, TCP means that the servers have to expect to have 100k's of open
>>> connections; I remember that used to be a problem.
>>>
>>> As for D'oH, sure; let's centralize the attack surface.
>> The only reason I bring up DoH is because now there are tcp connection
>> when the day before there were none. I haven't noticed any difference
>> since firefox turned it, so they obviously figured out the scaling.
> Firefox is using one TCP connection to pipeline all the D'oH queries down?

I assume so. DoH is just http running http2 or http3. Clearly getting 
servers to support millions of http sessions is doable these days.

Mike



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