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k.root-servers.net Changing DNS Software at on 19.2.2003
by Daniel Karrenberg 14 Feb '03

14 Feb '03

As announced previously k.root-servers.net will start running nsd 1.0.2-rel. The changeover will start at 0900UTC on Wednesday 19.2.2003. Between 0900 and 0930 all instances of K will be sequentially cut over. This way there will be no service interruption. During the cut-over period K will answer either using bind8 or nsd. After 0930 K will answer only using nsd. K will support identification of software and instance via id.server and version.server in class CHAOS as per draft-ietf-dnsop-serverid. This change is designed to increase the diversity of software in the root name server system, the lack of which is widely considered to be a potential vulnerability. The nsd software has been designed from scratch specifically as an authoritative name server. It has no design commonalities with bind, the currently prevalent DNS implementation. In addition to that nsd provides a significant increase in the performance reserve of k.root-servers.net. Please report any anomalies with k.root-servers.net service to <ops(a)ripe.net> as usual. nsd can be found at http://www.nlnetlabs.nl/nsd/index.html.

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New Document Available: RIPE-268
by RIPE NCC Document Announcement Service 13 Feb '03

13 Feb '03

New RIPE Documents Announcement -------------------------------------- A new document is available from the RIPE document store. Ref: ripe-268 Title: Distributing K-Root Service by Anycast Routing of 193.0.14.129 Author: Daniel Karrenburg Date: 13 February 2003 Format: PS=26610 TXT=12804 Obsoletes: Obsoleted by: Updates: Updated by: Short content description ------------------------- This document proposes to distribute the DNS service provided by k.root-servers.net across multiple locations in the Internet topology. It discusses the motivation for and the principles of implementation. A first inventory of detailed issues is provided in an appendix. Accessing the RIPE document store --------------------------------- You can access the RIPE document in HTML format via our website at the following URL:. http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-268.html The RIPE Document Store is also available via anonymous FTP to ftp.ripe.net, in the directory ripe/docs. The URLs for the new document on the FTP-server are: ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-268.ps PostScript version ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-268.txt plain text version

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clueing in TLD registries for delegations to non-BIND servers
by Stefan Paletta 10 Feb '03

10 Feb '03

All, good to see nsd make progress (played with it a litte while ago, but tinydns continues to serve me best). I understand that nsd (as most non-BIND servers) returns SERVFAIL for questions for which it it does have neither authoritative nor non- authoritative data (i.e. it is lame) and that this behaviour is RFC- conformant and certainly best-practice for authoritative-only servers. Some TLD registries, however, make unreasonable demands regarding the behaviour of servers to which they delegate zones. Most notably the .fr and .it registries, which apparently demand that servers return a (non-authoritative!, in the case of .it) referral to the root servers when they are lame. These demands are highly questionable -to say the least- and are hard and sometimes impossible to follow for users of at least tinydns and nsd. I was wondering if RIPE or a group from the RIPE community might appeal to those registries and try to make them stop acting stupid. -Stefan -- junior guru SP666-RIPE SMP@{IRC,SILC}

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Re: clueing in TLD registries for delegations to non-BIND servers
by Olaf Kolkman 08 Feb '03

08 Feb '03

* > It should be configured to hand out a referral. * * if you do not include a hints file in nsd's database, it will return * SERVFAIL. * * > > bind9 will reply with REFUSED if the hints file is missing and it is * > > configured to be authoritative only. * > * > Are you sure? For which version of BIND 9? My understanding is * > that they had a pre-compiled list of the root servers built into the * > source code, and that this would be used to generate the initial * > "hints" zone, thus allowing you to avoid having this file. Indeed, I * > wouldn't be surprised at all if the built-in data over-rode the file, * > but maybe that's going too far. * * if you set up bind9 with a authoritative-only view it will return REFUSED. * in a "normal" configuration, it will use pre-compiled root-hints. * Also see Appendix B in the REQUIREMENTS doc in the distribution. This argues why a SERVFAIL is returened if there is no hints file present. " B.1. Returning the root delegation when no answer can be found From RFC1034/1035 it is not obvious if returning a root delegation is a (non-)requirement for authoritative servers. We have decided not to implement a root-hints since an authoritative server should in normal circumstances only receive queries for which the server is authoritative. Also see RFC 1123 section 6.1.2.5. Whenever an answer cannot been provided we return a SERVFAIL. It has been argued that this is a policy decision and thus a REFUSE should be returned. However, in the spirit of RFC1034/1035 a server should return cached data, if that cache cannot be reached a SERVFAIL is an appropriate response. Also see the discussion on the 'namedroppers list' Starting April 2002 with subject "name server without root cache " (ftp://ops.ietf.org/pub/lists/) ' --Olaf

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FW: IPv6 reverse DNS meeting at last IETF
by paul.mylotte＠bt.com 21 Jan '03

21 Jan '03

Sorry about coming in late on this thread, but I would like to propose that we: * stop any further IPv6 reverse delegations in ip6.int * move all existing reverse delegations from ip6.int into ip6.arpa * define all future IPv6 reverse delegations in ip6.arpa only. Paul -----Original Message----- From: David Kessens [mailto:david@IPRG.nokia.com] Sent: 07 January 2003 00:50 To: ipv6-wg(a)ripe.net; dns-wg(a)ripe.net Subject: IPv6 reverse DNS meeting at last IETF Hi, I would like to share with you the results of a private discussion that started at a meeting at the last IETF regarding IPv6 reverse delegation issues. The group of people was an ad-hoc group which is worried that the process for moving to ip6.arpa is stagnating. People involved in the discussion were: Kurt Erik Lindqvist David Kessens Johan Ihren Andrei Robachevsky Patrik Faltstrom Jim Reid The topic of the meeting was IPv6 reverse DNS. We agreed on the following: - the move to ip6.arpa is not on track - it's probably best that we start to give attention to this problem in the DNS wg to avoid any duplication in efforts. (BTW this also means that the chairs of the ipv6 wg and DNS wg need a meeting schedule that will allow IPv6 wg participants to attend the DNS wg - we, Jim Reid & David Kessens, have already made this very clear to the RIPE NCC). - Andrei made it clear that the RIPE NCC wants to move forward with a pragmatic approach - we should stop making further delegations in ip6.int (in so far that this is within our powers, at the minimum we can recommend this) - we should make it possible that 3ffe address holders can start getting reverse delegations in ip6.arpa. This is important because it will allow software coders/vendors to do look ups in ip6.arpa only instead of doing kludges by looking in both or in the wrong one (ip6.int) we think this is important to get started as soon as possible since software tends to stay alive longer than desirable Andrei/RIPE NCC was going to ask IAB and/or other powers that be to get this moving. We as a community should help if necessary by a supporting statement. (Andrei already sent his request and is working on a proposal for implementation) - 6to4 reverse delegation We discussed this topic briefly as a lesser priority item. As 6to4 is a transition mechanism for networks that can not get native access to v6, we concluded that reverse delegation might not be that important for the 6to4 addresses. This is clearly a point for more discussion for the DNS wg. Obviously, this is just the opinion of a small group - your comments are welcome! Please follow up to the dns-wg list only (unless you don't agree on moving this topic to the dns-wg in the first place :-)). Thanks, David K. --- ---------------------------------------------------- All subscriber postings should be sent to: ietf-discuss(a)crpo.bt.co.uk Requests to be added to, or removed from, this list should be sent to: graham.travers(a)bt.com CONFIDENTIALITY Note that people from Wholesale, Ignite and Openworld subscribe to this mailing list in addition to BTexact people. Do not post any material you do not want to be seen by other Lines of Business. ----------------------------------------------------

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Re: Experiments on production DNS (was: Re: NS.EU.NET running NSD)
by Jim Reid 20 Jan '03

20 Jan '03

>>>>> "Wilfried" == Wilfried Woeber, UniVie/ACOnet <woeber(a)cc.univie.ac.at> writes: Wilfried> Could someone explain *what the real problem* is, if Wilfried> it exists/ed? In the DNS world, there are many "real problems". :-) For this particular example, it turns out that ns.eu.net *was* misconfigured for a while. [I'm not sure when or for how long.] This meant it gave incorrect answers. Once this was noticed, the problem was promptly fixed. It wasn't an implementation error in NSD or a difference of interpretation in the DNS protocol by the authors of BIND or NSD. Quite simply it appears to have been an example of administrative error causing garbage-in, garbage-out. In this case the garbage was the DNS data fed to NSD. The OP compounded matters by referring to connectivity problems which don't seem to exist. And not showing when and where the NXDOMAIN responses came from didn't help. We now return this discussion to yet another bout of ICANN-bashing...

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Experiments on production DNS (was: Re: NS.EU.NET running NSD)
by Berislav Todorovic 20 Jan '03

20 Jan '03

As far as I remember, on 1 October 2002 people using ns.EU.net as secondary for their zones received the following announcement from RIPE NCC (just stating the significant part): >> We, the RIPE NCC, host the nameserver ns.eu.net since the beginning of >> June 2002 as a service to the Internet community, to give the >> administrators of the large number of domains that ns.eu.net is still >> running secondary nameservice for, ample time to stop referencing to it. >> >> We cannot provide this service indefinitely and are planning to stop >> running ns.eu.net in 1 month time, in the beginning of November 2002. Despite of the warning, ns.EU.net continued to operate normally after November 2002. Well, many people probably appreciate this. However, since few days ago a lot of ccTLD administrators started to complain about reachability of ns.EU.net. Today we got the explanation about it: >> Since January 13, the RIPE NCC is running the NS.EU.NET nameserver >> with a new software, NSD ( http://www.nlnetlabs.nl/nsd ). Well, experimenting is just fine, but don't you think people should have been warned in advance? I don't need ns.EU.net anymore, since I moved all domains we need to another server. However, some ccTLD's are still using it and blaming our company for the problems, since EU.net domain is still owned and operated by us. Your argument might be that "they had enough time to migrate". True. You are free to remove them completely from ns.EU.net, but as long as ns.EU.net is a live box and serves as a DNS - it is a part of production environment. Would you, please, take a look into 4 ccTLD's that return NXDOMAIN and take care they continue to have normal service: al ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 4 bg ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 4 tp ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 4 zw ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 4 Their primaries are: al 146.48.65.46 bg 192.92.129.1 tp 194.106.128.50 zw 194.133.122.47 Regards, Beri --------- Berislav Todorovic, Senior IP Specialist -------- ----- KPN Eurorings B.V. - IP Engineering/NOC/Support ----- ---- Telecomplein 5, 2516 CK Den Haag, NL ---- ----- Email: beri(a)eurorings.net <=> beri(a)EU.net ----

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Re: Experiments on production DNS (was: Re: NS.EU.NET running NSD)
by Wilfried Woeber, UniVie/ACOnet 20 Jan '03

20 Jan '03

>> Your argument might be that "they had enough time to migrate". True. > >Yes, they had, but ICANN/DoC bureaucrats hold them hostages. That's an issue not directly (technically :-) related to this discussion. >IMHO, it is better to shut it down completely. The DNS behaves fine >when a server is down, not when it is running and giving possibly >wrong information (as ns.eu.net hosted by RIPE already did for former >domains of EUnet-France). Could someone explain *what the real problem* is, if it exists/ed? I am definitely NOT a DNS expert, but I couldn't verify a "wrong" answer returned by ns.eu.net yet. >Otherwise, nsd is a very fine software :-) and I'm glad to see it used >in production. Why not trying it on NS.RIPE.NET? But _if_ there is a problem (and not simply a _different_ behaviour than bind would respond, due to an inconsistent configuration somewhere), then everybody would be better off to get it documented and fixed, I suppose? Wilfried. PS: I am very interested to get this sorted out, because we already have that creature doing business here, and I'm considering to use it for another service soon. Thanks....

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NS.EU.NET running NSD.
by Daniel Diaz 15 Jan '03

15 Jan '03

(apologies for duplicates) Dear all, Since January 13, the RIPE NCC is running the NS.EU.NET nameserver with a new software, NSD ( http://www.nlnetlabs.nl/nsd ). In case of any observed oddity with NS.EU.NET and/or service, please let us know by sending an e-mail to <ops(a)ripe.net>. -- Daniel.Diaz Operations Manager RIPE NCC #---------------------------------------------------------------------- # To unsubscribe, send a message to <dnsop-request(a)cafax.se>.

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Draft on using SRV records to locate whois servers
by Marcos Sanz/Denic 09 Jan '03

09 Jan '03

Folks, Below is the updated draft we have been working on. Comments have been incorporated and new sections have been added. We would like to light up the discussion here before the WG meeting. The most up-to-date version of the document can always be found at http://mailbox.univie.ac.at/~gw/draft-whois-srv.txt Regards, Marcos Sanz DENIC eG (See attached file: draft-whois-srv.txt)

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