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DNSOP Working Group Paul Vixie, ISC (Ed.)
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INTERNET-DRAFT Akira Kato, WIDE
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<draft-ietf-dnsop-respsize-01.txt> July, 2004
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DNS Response Size Issues
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Status of this Memo
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This document is an Internet-Draft and is subject to all provisions
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of section 3 of RFC 3667. By submitting this Internet-Draft, each
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author represents that any applicable patent or other IPR claims of
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which we are aware have been or will be disclosed, and any of which
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we become aware will be disclosed, in accordance with RFC 3668.
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Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering
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Task Force (IETF), its areas, and its working groups. Note that
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other groups may also distribute working documents as Internet-
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Drafts.
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Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months
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and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any
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time. It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as reference
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material or to cite them other than as "work in progress."
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The list of current Internet-Drafts can be accessed at
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http://www.ietf.org/ietf/1id-abstracts.txt
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The list of Internet-Draft Shadow Directories can be accessed at
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http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html.
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Copyright Notice
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Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2003-2004). All Rights Reserved.
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Abstract
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With a mandated default minimum maximum message size of 512 octets,
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the DNS protocol presents some special problems for zones wishing to
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expose a moderate or high number of authority servers (NS RRs). This
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document explains the operational issues caused by, or related to
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this response size limit.
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Expires December 2004 [Page 1]
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INTERNET-DRAFT June 2003 RESPSIZE
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1 - Introduction and Overview
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1.1. The DNS standard (see [RFC1035 4.2.1]) limits message size to 512
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octets. Even though this limitation was due to the required minimum UDP
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reassembly limit for IPv4, it is a hard DNS protocol limit and is not
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implicitly relaxed by changes in transport, for example to IPv6.
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1.2. The EDNS0 standard (see [RFC2671 2.3, 4.5]) permits larger
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responses by mutual agreement of the requestor and responder. However,
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deployment of EDNS0 cannot be expected to reach every Internet resolver
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in the short or medium term. The 512 octet message size limit remains
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in practical effect at this time.
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1.3. Since DNS responses include a copy of the request, the space
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available for response data is somewhat less than the full 512 octets.
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For negative responses, there is rarely a space constraint. For
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positive and delegation responses, though, every octet must be carefully
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and sparingly allocated. This document specifically addresses
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delegation response sizes.
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2 - Delegation Details
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2.1. A delegation response will include the following elements:
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Header Section: fixed length (12 octets)
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Question Section: original query (name, class, type)
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Answer Section: (empty)
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Authority Section: NS RRset (nameserver names)
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Additional Section: A and AAAA RRsets (nameserver addresses)
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2.2. If the total response size would exceed 512 octets, and if the data
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that would not fit was in the question, answer, or authority section,
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then the TC bit will be set (indicating truncation) which may cause the
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requestor to retry using TCP, depending on what information was present
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and what was omitted. If a retry using TCP is needed, the total cost of
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the transaction is much higher.
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2.3. RRsets are never sent partially, so if truncation occurs, entire
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RRsets are omitted. Note that the authority section consists of a
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single RRset. It is absolutely essential that truncation not occur in
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the authority section.
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INTERNET-DRAFT June 2003 RESPSIZE
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2.4. DNS label compression allows a domain name to be instantiated only
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once per DNS message, and then referenced with a two-octet "pointer"
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from other locations in that same DNS message. If all nameserver names
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in a message are similar (for example, all ending in ".ROOT-
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SERVERS.NET"), then more space will be available for uncompressable data
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(such as nameserver addresses).
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2.5. The query name can be as long as 255 characters of presentation
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data, which can be up to 256 octets of network data. In this worst case
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scenario, the question section will be 260 octets in size, which would
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leave only 240 octets for the authority and additional sections (after
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deducting 12 octets for the fixed length header.)
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2.6. Average and maximum question section sizes can be predicted by the
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zone owner, since they will know what names actually exist, and can
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measure which ones are queried for most often. For cost and performance
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reasons, the majority of requests should be satisfied without truncation
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or TCP retry.
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2.7. Requestors who deliberately send large queries to force truncation
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are only increasing their own costs, and cannot effectively attack the
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resources of an authority server since the requestor would have to retry
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using TCP to complete the attack. An attack that always used TCP would
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have a lower cost.
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2.8. The minimum useful number of address records is two, since with
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only one address, the probability that it would refer to an unreachable
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server is too high. Truncation which occurs after two address records
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have been added to the additional data section is therefore less
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operationally significant than truncation which occurs earlier.
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2.9. The best case is no truncation. (This is because many requestors
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will retry using TCP by reflex, without considering whether the omitted
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data was actually necessary.)
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INTERNET-DRAFT June 2003 RESPSIZE
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3 - Analysis
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3.1. An instrumented protocol trace of a best case delegation response
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follows. Note that 13 servers are named, and 13 addresses are given.
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This query was artificially designed to exactly reach the 512 octet
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limit.
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;; flags: qr rd; QUERY: 1, ANS: 0, AUTH: 13, ADDIT: 13
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;; QUERY SECTION:
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;; [23456789.123456789.123456789.\
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123456789.123456789.123456789.com A IN] ;; @80
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;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
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com. 86400 NS E.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. ;; @112
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com. 86400 NS F.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. ;; @128
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com. 86400 NS G.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. ;; @144
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com. 86400 NS H.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. ;; @160
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com. 86400 NS I.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. ;; @176
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com. 86400 NS J.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. ;; @192
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com. 86400 NS K.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. ;; @208
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com. 86400 NS L.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. ;; @224
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com. 86400 NS M.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. ;; @240
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com. 86400 NS A.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. ;; @256
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com. 86400 NS B.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. ;; @272
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com. 86400 NS C.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. ;; @288
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com. 86400 NS D.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. ;; @304
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;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
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A.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. 86400 A 192.5.6.30 ;; @320
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B.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. 86400 A 192.33.14.30 ;; @336
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C.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. 86400 A 192.26.92.30 ;; @352
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D.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. 86400 A 192.31.80.30 ;; @368
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E.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. 86400 A 192.12.94.30 ;; @384
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F.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. 86400 A 192.35.51.30 ;; @400
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G.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. 86400 A 192.42.93.30 ;; @416
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H.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. 86400 A 192.54.112.30 ;; @432
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I.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. 86400 A 192.43.172.30 ;; @448
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J.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. 86400 A 192.48.79.30 ;; @464
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K.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. 86400 A 192.52.178.30 ;; @480
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L.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. 86400 A 192.41.162.30 ;; @496
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M.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. 86400 A 192.55.83.30 ;; @512
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;; MSG SIZE sent: 80 rcvd: 512
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3.2. For longer query names, the number of address records supplied will
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be lower. Furthermore, it is only by using a common parent name (which
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is GTLD-SERVERS.NET in this example) that all 13 addresses are able to
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fit. The following output from a response simulator demonstrates these
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properties:
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% perl respsize.pl 13 13 0
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common name, average case: msg:303 nsaddr#13 (green)
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common name, worst case: msg:495 nsaddr# 1 (red)
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uncommon name, average case: msg:457 nsaddr# 3 (orange)
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uncommon name, worst case: msg:649(*) nsaddr# 0 (red)
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% perl respsize.pl 13 13 2
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common name, average case: msg:303 nsaddr#11 (orange)
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common name, worst case: msg:495 nsaddr# 1 (red)
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uncommon name, average case: msg:457 nsaddr# 2 (orange)
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uncommon name, worst case: msg:649(*) nsaddr# 0 (red)
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(Note: The response simulator program is shown in Section 5.)
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Here we use the term "green" if all address records could fit, or
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"orange" if two or more could fit, or "red" if fewer than two could fit.
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It's clear that without a common parent for nameserver names, much space
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would be lost.
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We're assuming an average query name size of 64 since that is the
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typical average maximum size seen in trace data at the time of this
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writing. If Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) or any other technology
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which results in larger query names be deployed significantly in advance
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of EDNS, then more new measurements and new estimates will have to be
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made.
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4 - Conclusions
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4.1. The current practice of giving all nameserver names a common parent
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(such as GTLD-SERVERS.NET or ROOT-SERVERS.NET) saves space in DNS
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responses and allows for more nameservers to be enumerated than would
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otherwise be possible. (Note that in this case it is wise to serve the
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common parent domain's zone from the same servers that are named within
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it, in order to limit external dependencies when all your eggs are in a
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single basket.)
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4.2. Thirteen (13) seems to be the effective maximum number of
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nameserver names usable traditional (non-extended) DNS, assuming a
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common parent domain name, and assuming that additional-data truncation
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is undesirable in the average case.
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4.3. Adding two to five IPv6 nameserver address records (AAAA RRs) to a
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prototypical delegation that currently contains thirteen (13) IPv4
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nameserver addresses (A RRs) for thirteen (13) nameserver names under a
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common parent, would not have a significant negative operational impact
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on the domain name system.
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5 - Source Code
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#!/usr/bin/perl -w
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$asize = 2+2+2+4+2+4;
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$aaaasize = 2+2+2+4+2+16;
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($nns, $na, $naaaa) = @ARGV;
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test("common", "average", common_name_average($nns),
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$na, $naaaa);
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test("common", "worst", common_name_worst($nns),
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$na, $naaaa);
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test("uncommon", "average", uncommon_name_average($nns),
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$na, $naaaa);
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test("uncommon", "worst", uncommon_name_worst($nns),
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$na, $naaaa);
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exit 0;
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sub test { my ($namekind, $casekind, $msg, $na, $naaaa) = @_;
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my $nglue = numglue($msg, $na, $naaaa);
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printf "%8s name, %7s case: msg:%3d%s nsaddr#%2d (%s)\n",
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$namekind, $casekind,
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$msg, ($msg > 512) ? "(*)" : " ",
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$nglue, ($nglue == $na + $naaaa) ? "green"
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: ($nglue >= 2) ? "orange"
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: "red";
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}
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sub pnum { my ($num, $tot) = @_;
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return sprintf "%3d%s",
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}
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sub numglue { my ($msg, $na, $naaaa) = @_;
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my $space = ($msg > 512) ? 0 : (512 - $msg);
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my $num = 0;
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while ($space && ($na || $naaaa )) {
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if ($na) {
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if ($space >= $asize) {
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$space -= $asize;
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$num++;
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}
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$na--;
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}
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if ($naaaa) {
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if ($space >= $aaaasize) {
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$space -= $aaaasize;
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$num++;
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}
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$naaaa--;
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}
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}
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return $num;
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}
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sub msgsize { my ($qname, $nns, $nsns) = @_;
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return 12 + # header
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$qname+2+2 + # query
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0 + # answer
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$nns * (4+2+2+4+2+$nsns); # authority
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}
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sub average_case { my ($nns, $nsns) = @_;
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return msgsize(64, $nns, $nsns);
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}
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sub worst_case { my ($nns, $nsns) = @_;
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return msgsize(256, $nns, $nsns);
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}
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sub common_name_average { my ($nns) = @_;
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return 15 + average_case($nns, 2);
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}
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sub common_name_worst { my ($nns) = @_;
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return 15 + worst_case($nns, 2);
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}
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sub uncommon_name_average { my ($nns) = @_;
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return average_case($nns, 15);
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}
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sub uncommon_name_worst { my ($nns) = @_;
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return worst_case($nns, 15);
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}
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Security Considerations
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The recommendations contained in this document have no known security
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implications.
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IANA Considerations
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This document does not call for changes or additions to any IANA
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registry.
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IPR Statement
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Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2003-2004). This document is
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subject to the rights, licenses and restrictions contained in BCP 78,
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and except as set forth therein, the authors retain all their rights.
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This document and the information contained herein are provided on an
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"AS IS" basis and THE CONTRIBUTOR, THE ORGANIZATION HE/SHE REPRESENTS OR
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IS SPONSORED BY (IF ANY), THE INTERNET SOCIETY AND THE INTERNET
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ENGINEERING TASK FORCE DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED,
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INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY WARRANTY THAT THE USE OF THE
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INFORMATION HEREIN WILL NOT INFRINGE ANY RIGHTS OR ANY IMPLIED
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WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
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Authors' Addresses
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Paul Vixie
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950 Charter Street
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Redwood City, CA 94063
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+1 650 423 1301
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vixie@isc.org
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Akira Kato
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University of Tokyo, Information Technology Center
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2-11-16 Yayoi Bunkyo
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Tokyo 113-8658, JAPAN
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+81 3 5841 2750
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kato@wide.ad.jp
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Expires December 2004 [Page 8]
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doc/draft/draft-ietf-dnsop-serverid-02.txt
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Network Working Group S. Woolf
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Internet-Draft Internet Systems Consortium, Inc.
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Expires: January 16, 2005 D. Conrad
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Nominum, Inc.
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July 18, 2004
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Identifying an Authoritative Name `Server
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draft-ietf-dnsop-serverid-02
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Status of this Memo
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This document is an Internet-Draft and is subject to all provisions
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of section 3 of RFC 3667. By submitting this Internet-Draft, each
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author represents that any applicable patent or other IPR claims of
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which he or she is aware have been or will be disclosed, and any of
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which he or she become aware will be disclosed, in accordance with
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RFC 3668.
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Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering
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Task Force (IETF), its areas, and its working groups. Note that
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other groups may also distribute working documents as
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Internet-Drafts.
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Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months
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and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any
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Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2004). All Rights Reserved.
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With the increased use of DNS anycast, load balancing, and other
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mechanisms allowing more than one DNS name server to share a single
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IP address, it is sometimes difficult to tell which of a pool of name
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servers has answered a particular query. A standardized mechanism to
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determine the identity of a name server responding to a particular
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query would be useful, particularly as a diagnostic aid. Existing ad
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hoc mechanisms for addressing this concern are not adequate. This
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document attempts to describe the common ad hoc solution to this
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problem, including its advantages and disadvantasges, and to
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characterize an improved mechanism.
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1. Introduction
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With the increased use of DNS anycast, load balancing, and other
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mechanisms allowing more than one DNS name server to share a single
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IP address, it is sometimes difficult to tell which of a pool of name
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servers has answered a particular query. A standardized mechanism to
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determine the identity of a name server responding to a particular
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query would be useful, particularly as a diagnostic aid.
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Unfortunately, existing ad-hoc mechanisms for providing such
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identification have some shortcomings, not the least of which is the
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lack of prior analysis of exactly how such a mechanism should be
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designed and deployed. This document describes the existing
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convention used in one widely deployed implementation of the DNS
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protocol and discusses requirements for an improved solution to the
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problem.
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2. Rationale
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Identifying which name server is responding to queries is often
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useful, particularly in attempting to diagnose name server
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difficulties. However, relying on the IP address of the name server
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has become more problematic due the deployment of various load
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balancing solutions, including the use of shared unicast addresses as
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documented in [RFC3258].
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An unfortunate side effect of these load balancing solutions is that
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traditional methods of determining which server is responding can be
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unreliable. Specifically, non-DNS methods such as ICMP ping, TCP
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connections, or non-DNS UDP packets (e.g., as generated by tools such
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as "traceroute"), etc., can end up going to a different server than
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that which receives the DNS queries.
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The widespread use of the existing convention suggests a need for a
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documented, interoperable means of querying the identity of a
|
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nameserver that may be part of an anycast or load-balancing cluster.
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At the same time, however, it also has some drawbacks that argue
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against standardizing it as it's been practiced so far.
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Internet-Draft Identifying an Authoritative Name `Server July 2004
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3. Existing Conventions
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Recent versions of the commonly deployed Berkeley Internet Name
|
||||
Domain implementation of the DNS protocol suite from the Internet
|
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Software Consortium [BIND] support a way of identifying a particular
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server via the use of a standard, if somewhat unusual, DNS query.
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Specifically, a query to a late model BIND server for a TXT resource
|
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record in class 3 (CHAOS) for the domain name "HOSTNAME.BIND." will
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return a string that can be configured by the name server
|
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administrator to provide a unique identifier for the responding
|
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server (defaulting to the value of a gethostname() call). This
|
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mechanism, which is an extension of the BIND convention of using
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CHAOS class TXT RR queries to sub-domains of the "BIND." domain for
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version information, has been copied by several name server vendors.
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For reference, the other well-known name used by recent versions of
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BIND within the CHAOS class "BIND." domain is "VERSION.BIND." A
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query for a TXT RR for this name will return an administratively re-
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definable string which defaults to the version of the server
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responding.
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3.1 Advantages
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There are several valuable attributes to this mechanism, which
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account for its usefulness.
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1. This mechanism is within the DNS protocol itself. An
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identification mechanism that relies on the DNS protocol is more
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likely to be successful (although not guaranteed) in going to the
|
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same machine as a "normal" DNS query.
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2. It is simple to configure. An administrator can easily turn on
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this feature and control the results of the relevant query.
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3. It allows the administrator complete control of what information
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is given out in the response, minimizing passive leakage of
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implementation or configuration details. Such details are often
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considered sensitive by infrastructure operators.
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3.2 Disadvantages
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At the same time, there are some forbidding drawbacks to the
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VERSION.BIND mechanism that argue against standardizing it as it
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currently operates.
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1. It requires an additional query to correlate between the answer
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to a DNS query under normal conditions and the supposed identity
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of the server receiving the query. There are a number of
|
||||
situations in which this simply isn't reliable.
|
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2. It reserves an entire class in the DNS (CHAOS) for what amounts
|
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to one zone. While CHAOS class is defined in [RFC1034] and
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[RFC1035], it's not clear that supporting it solely for this
|
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purpose is a good use of the namespace or of implementation
|
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effort.
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3. It is implementation specific. BIND is one DNS implementation.
|
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At the time of this writing, it is probably the most prevalent,
|
||||
for authoritative servers anyway. This does not justify
|
||||
standardizing on its ad hoc solution to a problem shared across
|
||||
many operators and implementors.
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|
||||
The first of the listed disadvantages is technically the most
|
||||
serious. It argues for an attempt to design a good answer to the
|
||||
problem that "I need to know what nameserver is answering my
|
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queries", not simply a convenient one.
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Internet-Draft Identifying an Authoritative Name `Server July 2004
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||||
|
||||
4. Characteristics of an Implementation Neutral Convention
|
||||
|
||||
The discussion above of advantages and disadvantages to the
|
||||
HOSTNAME.BIND mechanism suggest some requirements for a better
|
||||
solution to the server identification problem. These are summarized
|
||||
here as guidelines for any effort to provide appropriate protocol
|
||||
extensions:
|
||||
1. The mechanism adopted MUST be in-band for the DNS protocol. That
|
||||
is, it needs to allow the query for the server's identifying
|
||||
information to be part of a normal, operational query. It SHOULD
|
||||
also permit a separate, dedicated query for the server's
|
||||
identifying information.
|
||||
2. The new mechanism should not require dedicated namespaces or
|
||||
other reserved values outside of the existing protocol mechanisms
|
||||
for these, i.e. the OPT pseudo-RR.
|
||||
3. Support for the identification functionality SHOULD be easy to
|
||||
implement and easy to enable. It MUST be easy to disable and
|
||||
SHOULD lend itself to access controls on who can query for it.
|
||||
4. It should be possible to return a unique identifier for a server
|
||||
without requiring the exposure of information that may be
|
||||
non-public and considered sensitive by the operator, such as a
|
||||
hostname or unicast IP address maintained for administrative
|
||||
purposes.
|
||||
5. The identification mechanism SHOULD NOT be
|
||||
implementation-specific.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
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||||
Internet-Draft Identifying an Authoritative Name `Server July 2004
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
5. IANA Considerations
|
||||
|
||||
This document proposes no specific IANA action. Protocol extensions,
|
||||
if any, to meet the requirements described are out of scope for this
|
||||
document. Should such extensions be specified and adopted by normal
|
||||
IETF process, the specification will include appropriate guidance to
|
||||
IANA.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Woolf & Conrad Expires January 16, 2005 [Page 8]
|
||||
|
||||
Internet-Draft Identifying an Authoritative Name `Server July 2004
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
6. Security Considerations
|
||||
|
||||
Providing identifying information as to which server is responding
|
||||
can be seen as information leakage and thus a security risk. This
|
||||
motivates the suggestion above that a new mechanism for server
|
||||
identification allow the administrator to disable the functionality
|
||||
altogether or partially restrict availability of the data. It also
|
||||
suggests that the serverid data should not be readily correlated with
|
||||
a hostname or unicast IP address that may be considered private to
|
||||
the nameserver operator's management infrastructure.
|
||||
|
||||
Propagation of protocol or service meta-data can sometimes expose the
|
||||
application to denial of service or other attack. As DNS is a
|
||||
critically important infrastructure service for the production
|
||||
Internet, extra care needs to be taken against this risk for
|
||||
designers, implementors, and operators of a new mechanism for server
|
||||
identification.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Woolf & Conrad Expires January 16, 2005 [Page 9]
|
||||
|
||||
Internet-Draft Identifying an Authoritative Name `Server July 2004
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
7. Acknowledgements
|
||||
|
||||
The technique for host identification documented here was initially
|
||||
implemented by Paul Vixie of the Internet Software Consortium in the
|
||||
Berkeley Internet Name Daemon package. Comments and questions on
|
||||
earlier drafts were provided by Bob Halley, Brian Wellington, Andreas
|
||||
Gustafsson, Ted Hardie, Chris Yarnell, Randy Bush, and members of the
|
||||
ICANN Root Server System Advisory Committee. The newest draft takes
|
||||
a significantly different direction from previous versions, owing to
|
||||
discussion among contributors to the DNSOP working group and others,
|
||||
particularly Olafur Gudmundsson, Ed Lewis, Bill Manning, Sam Weiler,
|
||||
and Rob Austein.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Woolf & Conrad Expires January 16, 2005 [Page 10]
|
||||
|
||||
Internet-Draft Identifying an Authoritative Name `Server July 2004
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Intellectual Property Statement
|
||||
|
||||
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|
||||
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|
||||
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|
||||
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|
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|
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||||
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|
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|
||||
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|
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|
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|
||||
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|
||||
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|
||||
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|
||||
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|
||||
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|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
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|
||||
|
||||
This document and the information contained herein are provided on an
|
||||
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|
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|
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|
||||
|
||||
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|
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|
||||
Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2004). This document is subject
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||||
to the rights, licenses and restrictions contained in BCP 78, and
|
||||
except as set forth therein, the authors retain all their rights.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Acknowledgment
|
||||
|
||||
Funding for the RFC Editor function is currently provided by the
|
||||
Internet Society.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
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