Dear WG members,
please find below the minutes with all change requests (all typos) received
during RIPE-28 in Amsterdam worked in.
This will be considered final after a week comment period (deadline Sunday,
October 12th).
Ruediger Volk
(Draft) Minutes of
DNS Working Group Working Group meeting
Chair: Ruediger Volk
RIPE-27
Wed May 22 1997
1. Adminstrativa
scribe: Wilhelm Buehler, de.xlink
action items: no open ones
minutes of last meeting: no problems reported
2. Reports
2 a) root-server K.root-servers.NET (Carol Orange)
- the new root-server is up since last friday (May 16th)
- operated by the RIPE-NCC with 24/7 service (RFC 2010)
- runs on two industrial PC running BSDI-Unix
with a hotswap-disc
- only for "."-Zone
2 b ) DNS-Database Referal (Carol Orange and Wilfried Woeber)
Aim: User can find authoritative data about domains, without
knowing, where it is.
Administrators don't have to store the data in multiple
databases.
new attribute in domain-object :
refer: <type> <host> <port>
(where type is the style of whois, like RIPE, InterNIC)
This looks like a URL, but whois is not a registered protocoll
for URL. Carol: "We should register it"
How to handle the request forwarding?
a) query server with original searchkey; forward response
b) return object with referral data (as now)
c) send query to server with address of sender
to a: + only change to RIPE server
- doesn't scale
to b: + will scale
- significant time to get it working
=> start with option a)
=> develop referral aware clients
=> support a) and b) until server load gets too high
The whois-server (RIPE) is performing function + client
is using it, determines whehter (a) or (b).
- If a adminstrator doesn't want this, put the information
in a 'remarks:', not a 'refer:'-line
Problem mentioned:
- recursive referrals (if other servers offer this too)
Action: look on scalability
2 c) NCC In-addr-Tool (Carol Orange alias Maldwyn Morris)
Credits:
- prev. version: David Kessens
- modification done by Maldwyn Morris
Reverse delegation is now mostly automated.
- checks IP-address, SOA, NS, Zone-data
- reachability of servers, UDP-checksum used
- comparing with RIPE-Database
- ns.ripe.net is requiered fo /16
it's forbidden for /24
- includes assignment-window-check
- human hostmaster only approves the request at the end
=> Improves turn-a-round-time,
prevents human errors, scalabilty
running since May 6th, in a couple of weeks on the ftp-site (in source)
Feature
with Keyword 'TEST': all tests will be done, but the request
will not be preceeded by RIPE-NCC
2 d) BIND ( Francis Dupont, INRIA)
new version 4.95 patch 2
named 8.1 has new configuration file syntax
incl. notify-feature (=> SOA requirement out of date?)
2 e) IETF DNSIND WG (no report from Memphis directly)
ongoing and going fine
- cidr-delegation internet draft (best-current-practice)
- dynamic update
- security
- clarification
3) Activities for the WG
- Review recommendations (SOA requirement)
- Target of the WG ?
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