Network Working Group M. Andrews
Internet-Draft ISC
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Locally-served DNS Zones
draft-ietf-dnsop-default-local-zones-14
Abstract
Experience with the Domain Name System (DNS) has shown that there are
a number of DNS zones all iterative resolvers and recursive
nameservers should automatically serve, unless configured otherwise.
RFC 4193 specifies that this should occur for D.F.IP6.ARPA. This
document extends the practice to cover the IN-ADDR.ARPA zones for RFC
1918 address space and other well known zones with similar
characteristics.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
1.1. Reserved Words . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2. Effects on sites using RFC 1918 addresses. . . . . . . . . . . 5
3. Changes to Iterative Resolver Behaviour. . . . . . . . . . . . 5
4. Lists Of Zones Covered . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
4.1. RFC1918 Zones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
4.2. RFC5735 and RFC5737 Zones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
4.3. Local IPv6 Unicast Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
4.4. IPv6 Locally Assigned Local Addresses . . . . . . . . . . 8
4.5. IPv6 Link Local Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
4.6. IPv6 Example Prefix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
5. Zones that are Out-Of-Scope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
6. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
7. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
8. Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
9. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
9.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
9.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Appendix A. Change History [To Be Removed on Publication] . . . . 11
A.1. draft-ietf-dnsop-default-local-zones-14.txt . . . . . . . 12
A.2. draft-ietf-dnsop-default-local-zones-13.txt . . . . . . . 12
A.3. draft-ietf-dnsop-default-local-zones-12.txt . . . . . . . 12
A.4. draft-ietf-dnsop-default-local-zones-11.txt . . . . . . . 12
A.5. draft-ietf-dnsop-default-local-zones-10.txt . . . . . . . 12
A.6. draft-ietf-dnsop-default-local-zones-09.txt . . . . . . . 12
A.7. draft-ietf-dnsop-default-local-zones-08.txt . . . . . . . 12
A.8. draft-ietf-dnsop-default-local-zones-07.txt . . . . . . . 12
A.9. draft-ietf-dnsop-default-local-zones-06.txt . . . . . . . 12
A.10. draft-ietf-dnsop-default-local-zones-05.txt . . . . . . . 12
A.11. draft-ietf-dnsop-default-local-zones-04.txt . . . . . . . 12
A.12. draft-ietf-dnsop-default-local-zones-03.txt . . . . . . . 13
A.13. draft-ietf-dnsop-default-local-zones-02.txt . . . . . . . 13
A.14. draft-ietf-dnsop-default-local-zones-01.txt . . . . . . . 13
A.15. draft-ietf-dnsop-default-local-zones-00.txt . . . . . . . 13
A.16. draft-andrews-full-service-resolvers-03.txt . . . . . . . 13
A.17. draft-andrews-full-service-resolvers-02.txt . . . . . . . 13
Author's Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
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1. Introduction
Experience with the Domain Name System (DNS, [RFC1034] and [RFC1035])
has shown that there are a number of DNS zones that all iterative
resolvers and recursive nameservers SHOULD automatically serve,
unless intentionally configured otherwise. These zones include, but
are not limited to, the IN-ADDR.ARPA zones for the address space
allocated by [RFC1918] and the IP6.ARPA zones for locally assigned
unique local IPv6 addresses defined in [RFC4193].
This recommendation is made because data has shown that significant
leakage of queries for these name spaces is occurring, despite
instructions to restrict them, and because it has therefore become
necessary to deploy sacrificial name servers to protect the immediate
parent name servers for these zones from excessive, unintentional,
query load [AS112] [I-D.draft-ietf-dnsop-as112-ops]
[I-D.draft-ietf-dnsop-as112-under-attack-help-help]. There is every
expectation that the query load will continue to increase unless
steps are taken as outlined here.
Additionally, queries from clients behind badly configured firewalls
that allow outgoing queries for these name spaces but drop the
responses, put a significant load on the root servers (forward but no
reverse zones configured). They also cause operational load for the
root server operators as they have to reply to enquiries about why
the root servers are "attacking" these clients. Changing the default
configuration will address all these issues for the zones listed in
Section 4.
[RFC4193] recommends that queries for D.F.IP6.ARPA be handled
locally. This document extends the recommendation to cover the IN-
ADDR.ARPA zones for [RFC1918] and other well known IN-ADDR.ARPA and
IP6.ARPA zones for which queries should not appear on the public
Internet.
It is hoped that by doing this the number of sacrificial servers
[AS112] will not have to be increased, and may in time be reduced.
This recommendation should also help DNS responsiveness for sites
which are using [RFC1918] addresses but do not follow the last
paragraph in Section 3 of [RFC1918].
1.1. Reserved Words
The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
"SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
document are to be interpreted as described in [RFC2119].
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2. Effects on sites using RFC 1918 addresses.
For most sites using [RFC1918] addresses, the changes here will have
little or no detrimental effect. If the site does not already have
the reverse tree populated the only effect will be that the name
error responses will be generated locally rather than remotely.
For sites that do have the reverse tree populated, most will either
have a local copy of the zones or will be forwarding the queries to
servers which have local copies of the zone. Therefore this
recommendation will not be relevant.
The most significant impact will be felt at sites that make use of
delegations for [RFC1918] addresses and have populated these zones.
These sites will need to override the default configuration expressed
in this document to allow resolution to continue. Typically, such
sites will be fully disconnected from the Internet and have their own
root servers for their own non-Internet DNS tree.
3. Changes to Iterative Resolver Behaviour.
Unless configured otherwise, an iterative resolver will now return
authoritatively (aa=1) name errors (RCODE=3) for queries within the
zones in Section 4, with the obvious exception of queries for the
zone name itself where SOA, NS and "no data" responses will be
returned as appropriate to the query type. One common way to do this
all at once is to serve empty (SOA and NS only) zones.
An implementation of this recommendation MUST provide a mechanism to
disable this new behaviour, and SHOULD allow this decision on a zone
by zone basis.
If using empty zones one SHOULD NOT use the same NS and SOA records
as used on the public Internet servers as that will make it harder to
detect the origin of the responses and thus any leakage to the public
Internet servers. This document recommends that the NS record
defaults to the name of the zone and the SOA MNAME defaults to the
name of the only NS RR's target. The SOA RNAME should default to
"nobody.invalid." [RFC2606]. Implementations SHOULD provide a
mechanism to set these values. No address records need to be
provided for the name server.
Below is an example of a generic empty zone in master file format.
It will produce a negative cache TTL of 3 hours.
@ 10800 IN SOA @ nobody.invalid. 1 3600 1200 604800 10800
@ 10800 IN NS @
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The SOA RR is needed to support negative caching [RFC2308] of name
error responses and to point clients to the primary master for DNS
dynamic updates.
SOA values of particular importance are the MNAME, the SOA RR's TTL
and the negTTL value. Both TTL values SHOULD match. The rest of the
SOA timer values MAY be chosen arbitrarily since they are not
intended to control any zone transfer activity.
The NS RR is needed as some UPDATE [RFC2136] clients use NS queries
to discover the zone to be updated. Having no address records for
the name server is expected to abort UPDATE processing in the client.
4. Lists Of Zones Covered
The following subsections are intended to seed the IANA registry as
requested in the IANA Considerations Section. Following the caveat
in that section, the list contains only reverse zones corresponding
to permanently assigned address space. The zone name is the entity
to be registered.
4.1. RFC1918 Zones
The following zones correspond to the IPv4 address space reserved in
[RFC1918].
+----------------------+
| Zone |
+----------------------+
| 10.IN-ADDR.ARPA |
| 16.172.IN-ADDR.ARPA |
| 17.172.IN-ADDR.ARPA |
| 18.172.IN-ADDR.ARPA |
| 19.172.IN-ADDR.ARPA |
| 20.172.IN-ADDR.ARPA |
| 21.172.IN-ADDR.ARPA |
| 22.172.IN-ADDR.ARPA |
| 23.172.IN-ADDR.ARPA |
| 24.172.IN-ADDR.ARPA |
| 25.172.IN-ADDR.ARPA |
| 26.172.IN-ADDR.ARPA |
| 27.172.IN-ADDR.ARPA |
| 28.172.IN-ADDR.ARPA |
| 29.172.IN-ADDR.ARPA |
| 30.172.IN-ADDR.ARPA |
| 31.172.IN-ADDR.ARPA |
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| 168.192.IN-ADDR.ARPA |
+----------------------+
4.2. RFC5735 and RFC5737 Zones
The following zones correspond to those address ranges from [RFC5735]
and [RFC5737] that are not expected to appear as source or
destination addresses on the public Internet and to not have a unique
name to associate with.
The recommendation to serve an empty zone 127.IN-ADDR.ARPA is not a
attempt to discourage any practice to provide a PTR RR for
1.0.0.127.IN-ADDR.ARPA locally. In fact, a meaningful reverse
mapping should exist, but the exact setup is out of the scope of this
document. Similar logic applies to the reverse mapping for ::1
(Section 4.3). The recommendations made here simply assume no other
coverage for these domains exists.
+------------------------------+------------------------+
| Zone | Description |
+------------------------------+------------------------+
| 0.IN-ADDR.ARPA | IPv4 "THIS" NETWORK |
| 127.IN-ADDR.ARPA | IPv4 LOOP-BACK NETWORK |
| 254.169.IN-ADDR.ARPA | IPv4 LINK LOCAL |
| 2.0.192.IN-ADDR.ARPA | IPv4 TEST NET 1 |
| 100.51.198.IN-ADDR.ARPA | IPv4 TEST NET 2 |
| 113.0.203.IN-ADDR.ARPA | IPv4 TEST NET 3 |
| 255.255.255.255.IN-ADDR.ARPA | IPv4 BROADCAST |
+------------------------------+------------------------+
4.3. Local IPv6 Unicast Addresses
The reverse mappings ([RFC3596], Section 2.5 IP6.ARPA Domain) for the
IPv6 Unspecified (::) and Loopback (::1) addresses ([RFC4291],
Sections 2.4, 2.5.2 and 2.5.3) are covered by these two zones:
+-------------------------------------------+
| Zone |
+-------------------------------------------+
| 0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.\ |
| 0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.IP6.ARPA |
| 1.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.\ |
| 0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.IP6.ARPA |
+-------------------------------------------+
Note: Line breaks and a escapes '\' have been inserted above for
readability and to adhere to line width constraints. They are not
parts of the zone names.
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4.4. IPv6 Locally Assigned Local Addresses
Section 4.4 of [RFC4193] already required special treatment of:
+--------------+
| Zone |
+--------------+
| D.F.IP6.ARPA |
+--------------+
4.5. IPv6 Link Local Addresses
IPv6 Link-Local Addresses as of [RFC4291], Section 2.5.6 are covered
by four distinct reverse DNS zones:
+----------------+
| Zone |
+----------------+
| 8.E.F.IP6.ARPA |
| 9.E.F.IP6.ARPA |
| A.E.F.IP6.ARPA |
| B.E.F.IP6.ARPA |
+----------------+
4.6. IPv6 Example Prefix
IPv6 example prefix [RFC3849].
+--------------------------+
| Zone |
+--------------------------+
| 8.B.D.0.1.0.0.2.IP6.ARPA |
+--------------------------+
Note: 8.B.D.0.1.0.0.2.IP6.ARPA is not being used as an example here.
5. Zones that are Out-Of-Scope
IPv6 site-local addresses (deprecated, see [RFC4291] Sections 2.4 and
2.5.7), and IPv6 Non-Locally Assigned Local addresses ([RFC4193]) are
not covered here.
It is expected that IPv6 site-local addresses will be self correcting
as IPv6 implementations remove support for site-local addresses.
However, sacrificial servers for the zones C.E.F.IP6.ARPA through
F.E.F.IP6.ARPA may still need to be deployed in the short term if the
traffic becomes excessive.
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For IPv6 Non-Locally Assigned Local addresses (L = 0) [RFC4193],
there has been no decision made about whether the Regional Internet
Registries (RIRs) will provide delegations in this space or not. If
they don't, then C.F.IP6.ARPA will need to be added to the list in
Section 4.4. If they do, then registries will need to take steps to
ensure that name servers are provided for these addresses.
IP6.INT was once used to provide reverse mapping for IPv6. IP6.INT
was deprecated in [RFC4159] and the delegation removed from the INT
zone in June 2006. While it is possible that legacy software
continues to send queries for names under the IP6.INT domain, this
document does not specify that IP6.INT be considered a local zone.
This document has also deliberately ignored names immediately under
the root domain. While there is a subset of queries to the root name
servers which could be addressed using the techniques described here
(e.g. .local, .workgroup and IPv4 addresses), there is also a vast
amount of traffic that requires a different strategy (e.g. lookups
for unqualified hostnames, IPv6 addresses).
6. IANA Considerations
This document requests that IANA establish a registry of zones which
require this default behaviour. The initial contents of this
registry are defined in Section 4. Implementors are encouraged to
periodically check this registry and adjust their implementations to
reflect changes therein.
This registry can be amended through "IETF Review" as per [RFC5226].
As part of this review process it should be noted that once a zone is
added it is effectively added permanently; once an address range
starts being configured as a local zone in systems on the Internet,
it will be impossible to reverse those changes.
IANA should co-ordinate with the RIRs to ensure that, as DNSSEC is
deployed in the reverse tree, delegations for these zones are made in
the manner described in Section 7.
7. Security Considerations
During the initial deployment phase, particularly where [RFC1918]
addresses are in use, there may be some clients that unexpectedly
receive a name error rather than a PTR record. This may cause some
service disruption until their recursive name server(s) have been re-
configured.
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As DNSSEC is deployed within the IN-ADDR.ARPA and IP6.ARPA
namespaces, the zones listed above will need to be delegated as
insecure delegations, or be within insecure zones. This will allow
DNSSEC validation to succeed for queries in these spaces despite not
being answered from the delegated servers.
It is recommended that sites actively using these namespaces secure
them using DNSSEC [RFC4035] by publishing and using DNSSEC trust
anchors. This will protect the clients from accidental import of
unsigned responses from the Internet.
8. Acknowledgements
This work was supported by the US National Science Foundation
(research grant SCI-0427144) and DNS-OARC.
9. References
9.1. Normative References
[RFC1034] Mockapetris, P., "DOMAIN NAMES - CONCEPTS AND FACILITIES",
STD 13, RFC 1034, November 1987.
[RFC1035] Mockapetris, P., "DOMAIN NAMES - IMPLEMENTATION AND
SPECIFICATION", STD 13, RFC 1035, November 1987.
[RFC1918] Rekhter, Y., Moskowitz, B., Karrenberg, D., de Groot, G.,
and E. Lear, "Address Allocation for Private Internets",
BCP 5, RFC 1918, February 1996.
[RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997.
[RFC2136] Vixie, P., Thomson, A., Rekhter, Y., and J. Bound,
"Dynamic Updates in the Domain Name System (DNS UPDATE)",
RFC 2136, April 1997.
[RFC2308] Andrews, M., "Negative Caching of DNS Queries (DNS
NCACHE)", RFC 2308, March 1998.
[RFC2606] Eastlake, D. and A. Panitz, "Reserved Top Level DNS
Names", BCP 32, RFC 2606, June 1999.
[RFC3596] Thomson, S., Huitema, C., Ksinant, V., and M. Souissi,
"DNS Extensions to Support IPv6", RFC 3596, October 2003.
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[RFC4035] Arends, R., Austein, R., Larson, M., Massey, D., and S.
Rose, "Protocol Modifications for the DNS Security
Extensions", RFC 4035, March 2005.
[RFC4159] Huston, G., "Deprecation of "ip6.int"", BCP 109, RFC 4159,
August 2005.
[RFC4193] Hinden, R. and B. Haberman, "Unique Local IPv6 Unicast
Addresses", RFC 4193, October 2005.
[RFC4291] Hinden, R. and S. Deering, "IP Version 6 Addressing
Architecture", RFC 4291, February 2006.
[RFC5226] Narten, T. and H. Alvestrand, "Guidelines for Writing an
IANA Considerations Section in RFCs", BCP 26, RFC 5226,
October 2008.
9.2. Informative References
[AS112] "AS112 Project", <http://www.as112.net/>.
[I-D.draft-ietf-dnsop-as112-ops]
Abley, J. and W. Maton, "AS112 Nameserver Operations",
draft-ietf-dnsop-as112-ops-04 (work in progress),
July 2010.
[I-D.draft-ietf-dnsop-as112-under-attack-help-help]
Abley, J. and W. Maton, "I'm Being Attacked by
PRISONER.IANA.ORG!",
draft-ietf-dnsop-as112-under-attack-help-help-04 (work in
progress), July 2010.
[RFC3849] Huston, G., Lord, A., and P. Smith, "IPv6 Address Prefix
Reserved for Documentation", RFC 3849, July 2004.
[RFC5735] Cotton, M. and L. Vergoda, "Special-Use IPv4 Addresses",
RFC 5735, January 2010.
[RFC5737] Arkko, J., Cotton, M., and L. Vergoda, "IPv4 Address
Blocks Reserved for Documentation", RFC 5737,
January 2010.
Appendix A. Change History [To Be Removed on Publication]
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A.1. draft-ietf-dnsop-default-local-zones-14.txt
Removed ORCHID prefix.
A.2. draft-ietf-dnsop-default-local-zones-13.txt
Inclusion of ORCHID prefix.
reference updates.
A.3. draft-ietf-dnsop-default-local-zones-12.txt
Update IP6.INT's non inclusion rational.
Removed Appendix B, which requested BCP status, as it was redundant.
A.4. draft-ietf-dnsop-default-local-zones-11.txt
Change RFC 3330 to RFC 5735
A.5. draft-ietf-dnsop-default-local-zones-10.txt
added RFC 5737 zones
A.6. draft-ietf-dnsop-default-local-zones-09.txt
refresh awaiting writeup
A.7. draft-ietf-dnsop-default-local-zones-08.txt
editorial, reference updates
A.8. draft-ietf-dnsop-default-local-zones-07.txt
none, expiry prevention
A.9. draft-ietf-dnsop-default-local-zones-06.txt
add IPv6 example prefix
A.10. draft-ietf-dnsop-default-local-zones-05.txt
none, expiry prevention
A.11. draft-ietf-dnsop-default-local-zones-04.txt
Centrally Assigned Local addresses -> Non-Locally Assigned Local
address
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A.12. draft-ietf-dnsop-default-local-zones-03.txt
expanded section 4 descriptions
Added references [RFC2136], [RFC3596],
[I-D.draft-ietf-dnsop-as112-ops] and
[I-D.draft-ietf-dnsop-as112-under-attack-help-help].
Revised language.
A.13. draft-ietf-dnsop-default-local-zones-02.txt
RNAME now "nobody.invalid."
Revised language.
A.14. draft-ietf-dnsop-default-local-zones-01.txt
Revised impact description.
Updated to reflect change in IP6.INT status.
A.15. draft-ietf-dnsop-default-local-zones-00.txt
Adopted by DNSOP.
"Author's Note" re-titled "Zones that are Out-Of-Scope"
Add note that these zone are expected to seed the IANA registry.
Title changed.
A.16. draft-andrews-full-service-resolvers-03.txt
Added "Proposed Status".
A.17. draft-andrews-full-service-resolvers-02.txt
Added 0.IN-ADDR.ARPA.
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Author's Address
Mark P. Andrews
Internet Systems Consortium
950 Charter Street
Redwood City, CA 94063
US
Email: marka@isc.org
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