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 ?