DNS TIMEOUT Resource Record
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Internet Engineering Task Force                            T.J. Pusateri
Internet-Draft                                             T. Wattenberg
Intended status: Standards Track                            Unaffiliated
Expires: 7 May 2020                                      4 November 2019

                      DNS TIMEOUT Resource Record
                 draft-pusateri-dnsop-update-timeout-04

Abstract

   This specification defines a new DNS TIMEOUT resource record (RR)
   that associates a lifetime with one or more zone resource records.
   It is intended to be used to transfer resource record lifetime state
   between a zone's primary and secondary servers and to store lifetime
   state during server software restarts.

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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   2
   2.  Requirements Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
   3.  Sources of TIMEOUT Expiry Time  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
   4.  Common Usage Patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
     4.1.  TIMEOUT records vs. Update Leases . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
     4.2.  Testing for TIMEOUT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
   5.  Resource Record Composition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
     5.1.  Represented Record Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
     5.2.  Represented Record Count  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
     5.3.  Method Identifiers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
       5.3.1.  Method Identifier 0: NO METHOD  . . . . . . . . . . .   8
       5.3.2.  Method Identifier 1: MD-SHA256-128  . . . . . . . . .   8
     5.4.  Expiry Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
   6.  TIMEOUT RDATA Wire Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
   7.  Server Behavior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10
     7.1.  Primary Server Behavior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10
     7.2.  Secondary Server Behavior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10
   8.  TIMEOUT RDATA Presentation Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10
   9.  IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  11
   10. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  12
   11. Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  13
   12. References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  13
     12.1.  Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  13
     12.2.  Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  14
   Appendix A.  Example TIMEOUT resource records . . . . . . . . . .  14
   Authors' Addresses  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  17

1.  Introduction

   DNS Update [RFC2136] provides a mechanism to dynamically add/remove
   DNS resource records to/from a zone.  When a resource record is
   dynamically added, it remains in the zone until it is removed
   manually or via a subsequent DNS Update.  The context of a dynamic
   update may provide lifetime hints for the updated records (such as
   the EDNS(0) Update Lease option [I-D.sekar-dns-ul]), however, this
   lifetime is not communicated to secondary servers and will not
   necessarily endure through server software restarts.  This
   specification defines a new DNS TIMEOUT resource record that
   associates lifetimes with one or more resource records with the same
   owner name, type, and class that can be transferred to secondary
   servers through normal AXFR [RFC5936], IXFR [RFC1995] transfer