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AS112 Nameserver Operations
draft-jabley-dnsop-rfc6304bis-00

Document Type Replaced Internet-Draft (individual)
Expired & archived
Authors Joe Abley , William F. Maton
Last updated 2014-02-14
Replaced by draft-ietf-dnsop-rfc6304bis
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Abstract

Many sites connected to the Internet make use of IPv4 addresses that are not globally-unique. Examples are the addresses designated in RFC 1918 for private use within individual sites. Devices in such environments may occasionally originate Domain Name System (DNS) queries (so-called "reverse lookups") corresponding to those private-use addresses. Since the addresses concerned have only local significance, it is good practice for site administrators to ensure that such queries are answered locally. However, it is not uncommon for such queries to follow the normal delegation path in the public DNS instead of being answered within the site. It is not possible for public DNS servers to give useful answers to such queries. In addition, due to the wide deployment of private-use addresses and the continuing growth of the Internet, the volume of such queries is large and growing. The AS112 project aims to provide a distributed sink for such queries in order to reduce the load on the corresponding authoritative servers. The AS112 project is named after the Autonomous System Number (ASN) that was assigned to it. RFC6304 described the steps required to install a new AS112 node, and offered advice relating to such a node's operation. This document updates that advice to facilitate the addition and removal of zones for which query traffic will be sunk at AS112 nodes, using DNAME, whilst still supporting direct delegations to AS112 name servers. This document obsoletes RFC6304.

Authors

Joe Abley
William F. Maton

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