[PLUG] What are the advantages of blocking Google's QUIC protocol?

Arun Khan knura9 at gmail.com
Wed Apr 18 01:40:22 IST 2018


On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 8:09 AM, Amey Abhyankar <sco1984 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> Recently I observed huge amount of QUIC traffic on gateway.
> I have blocked the QUIC protocol traffic at gateway layer.
>

Looks like it may be coming from Chrome browser.   Has blocking QUIC
affected your Chrome experience i.e. does it switch to regular TCP
connection?
Do you have any pcap file(s) to share what's the destination IP?
(guessing they are Google IPs).

> What are the pro's & con's of blocking QUIC?
> I of course did Google but still ....
> I am interested to hear from those who has done this experiment already.

>From what I have read, there are only a *handful* server side
implementation besides Google implementing it on their own servers.
Although the protocol seems to address an interesting problem, there's
HTTP2.0 (SPDY) which is already implemented in Firefox (client) and
Apache (server -- mod_spdy).

PS - I haven't done any setup or testing with SPDY.

-- Arun Khan


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