Requirements for Management of Name Servers for the DNS
RFC 6168
Document | Type | RFC - Informational (May 2011; No errata) | |
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Author | Wes Hardaker | ||
Last updated | 2018-12-20 | ||
Replaces | draft-hardaker-dnsops-name-server-management-reqs | ||
Stream | IETF | ||
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Stream | WG state | (None) | |
Document shepherd | No shepherd assigned | ||
IESG | IESG state | RFC 6168 (Informational) | |
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Consensus Boilerplate | Unknown | ||
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Responsible AD | Ron Bonica | ||
IESG note | Peter Koch (pk@DENIC.DE) is the shepherd for this document. | ||
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Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) W. Hardaker Request for Comments: 6168 Sparta, Inc. Category: Informational May 2011 ISSN: 2070-1721 Requirements for Management of Name Servers for the DNS Abstract Management of name servers for the Domain Name System (DNS) has traditionally been done using vendor-specific monitoring, configuration, and control methods. Although some service monitoring platforms can test the functionality of the DNS itself, there is not an interoperable way to manage (monitor, control, and configure) the internal aspects of a name server itself. This document discusses the requirements of a management system for name servers and can be used as a shopping list of needed features for such a system. Status of This Memo This document is not an Internet Standards Track specification; it is published for informational purposes. This document is a product of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). It represents the consensus of the IETF community. It has received public review and has been approved for publication by the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG). Not all documents approved by the IESG are a candidate for any level of Internet Standard; see Section 2 of RFC 5741. Information about the current status of this document, any errata, and how to provide feedback on it may be obtained at http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6168. Hardaker Informational [Page 1] RFC 6168 Name Server Management Requirements May 2011 Copyright Notice Copyright (c) 2011 IETF Trust and the persons identified as the document authors. All rights reserved. This document is subject to BCP 78 and the IETF Trust's Legal Provisions Relating to IETF Documents (http://trustee.ietf.org/license-info) in effect on the date of publication of this document. Please review these documents carefully, as they describe your rights and restrictions with respect to this document. Code Components extracted from this document must include Simplified BSD License text as described in Section 4.e of the Trust Legal Provisions and are provided without warranty as described in the Simplified BSD License. This document may contain material from IETF Documents or IETF Contributions published or made publicly available before November 10, 2008. The person(s) controlling the copyright in some of this material may not have granted the IETF Trust the right to allow modifications of such material outside the IETF Standards Process. Without obtaining an adequate license from the person(s) controlling the copyright in such materials, this document may not be modified outside the IETF Standards Process, and derivative works of it may not be created outside the IETF Standards Process, except to format it for publication as an RFC or to translate it into languages other than English. Hardaker Informational [Page 2] RFC 6168 Name Server Management Requirements May 2011 Table of Contents 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 1.1. Requirements Notation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 1.2. Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 1.3. Document Layout and Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 2. Management Architecture Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 2.1. Expected Deployment Scenarios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 2.1.1. Zone Size Constraints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 2.1.2. Name Server Discovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 2.1.3. Configuration Data Volatility . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 2.1.4. Protocol Selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 2.1.5. Common Data Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 2.1.6. Operational Impact . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 2.2. Name Server Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 3. Management Operation Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 3.1. Control Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 3.1.1. Needed Control Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 3.1.2. Asynchronous Status Notifications . . . . . . . . . . 8 3.2. Configuration Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 3.2.1. Served Zone Modification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 3.2.2. Trust Anchor Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 3.2.3. Security Expectations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 3.2.4. TSIG Key Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 3.2.5. DNS Protocol Authorization Management . . . . . . . . 10Show full document text