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DNSOP Working Group                                            R. Bellis
Internet-Draft                                                       ISC
Updates: RFC 2845, RFC 2931 (if                              P. van Dijk
         approved) (if approved)                              R. Gacogne
Intended status: Standards Track                                PowerDNS
Expires: September 6, 2018                                March 05, 2018

                           DNS X-Proxied-For
                       draft-bellis-dnsop-xpf-04

Abstract

   It is becoming more commonplace to install front end proxy devices in
   front of DNS servers to provide (for example) load balancing or to
   perform transport layer conversions.

   This document defines a meta resource record that allows a DNS server
   to receive information about the client's original transport protocol
   parameters when supplied by trusted proxies.

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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   2
   2.  Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
   3.  Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
     3.1.  Client Handling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
     3.2.  Request Handling  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
     3.3.  Proxy Handling  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
     3.4.  Server Handling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
     3.5.  Wire Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
     3.6.  Presentation Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
     3.7.  Signed DNS Requests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
   4.  Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
   5.  Implementation status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
     5.1.  dnsdist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
     5.2.  PowerDNS Recursor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
     5.3.  Wireshark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
   6.  Privacy Considerations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
   7.  IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
   8.  Acknowledgements  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
   9.  References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
     9.1.  Normative References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
     9.2.  Informative References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
   Authors' Addresses  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9

1.  Introduction

   It is becoming more commonplace to install front end proxy devices in
   front of DNS servers [RFC1035] to provide load balancing or to
   perform transport layer conversions (e.g. to add DNS over TLS
   [RFC7858] to a DNS server that lacks native support).

   This has the unfortunate side effect of hiding the clients' source IP
   addresses from the server, making it harder to employ server-side
   technologies that rely on knowing those addresses (e.g.  ACLs, DNS
   Response Rate Limiting, etc).

   This document defines the XPF meta resource record (RR) that allows a
   DNS server to receive information about the client's original
   transport protocol parameters when supplied by trusted proxies.

   Whilst in some circumstances it would be possible to re-use the
   Client Subnet EDNS Option [RFC7871] to carry a subset of this

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