Dynamic Host Configuration                                      M. Stapp
Internet-Draft                                                   B. Volz
Expires: December 30, 2005                           Cisco Systems, Inc.
                                                           June 28, 2005


            Resolution of FQDN Conflicts among DHCP Clients
                <draft-ietf-dhc-ddns-resolution-09.txt>

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Abstract

   DHCP provides a mechanism for host configuration that includes
   dynamic assignment of IP addresses and fully qualified domain names.
   To maintain accurate name to IP address and IP address to name
   mappings in the DNS, these dynamically assigned addresses and fully
   qualified domain names require updates to the DNS.  This document
   identifies situations in which conflicts in the use of fully
   qualified domain names may arise among DHCP clients and servers, and
   describes a strategy for the use of the DHCID DNS resource record in



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   resolving those conflicts.

Table of Contents

   1.  Terminology  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  3
   2.  Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  3
   3.  Issues with DNS Update in DHCP Environments  . . . . . . . . .  3
     3.1   Client Misconfiguration  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  4
     3.2   Multiple DHCP Servers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  5
   4.  Use of the DHCID RR  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  5
   5.  DNS RR TTLs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  6
   6.  Procedures for performing DNS updates  . . . . . . . . . . . .  7
     6.1   Error Return Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  7
     6.2   Dual IPv4/IPv6 Client Considerations . . . . . . . . . . .  7
     6.3   Adding A and/or AAAA RRs to DNS  . . . . . . . . . . . . .  7
       6.3.1   Initial DHCID RR Query . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  8
       6.3.2   DNS UPDATE When FQDN Not in Use  . . . . . . . . . . .  8
       6.3.3   DNS UPDATE When FQDN in Use  . . . . . . . . . . . . .  8
       6.3.4   FQDN in Use by another Client  . . . . . . . . . . . .  9
     6.4   Adding PTR RR Entries to DNS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
     6.5   Removing Entries from DNS  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
     6.6   Updating Other RRs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
   7.  Security Considerations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
   8.  Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
   9.  References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
     9.1   Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
     9.2   Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
       Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
       Intellectual Property and Copyright Statements . . . . . . . . 15






















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1.  Terminology

   The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
   "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
   document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119 [1].

   FQDN, or Fully Qualified Domain Name, is the full name of a system,
   rather than just its hostname.  For example, "venera" is a hostname
   and "venera.isi.edu" is an FQDN.  See [7].

   DOCSIS, or Data-Over-Cable Service Interface Specifications, is
   defined by CableLabs (www.cablelabs.com).

   Additional terms used in this document are likely defined in [7].

2.  Introduction

   "The Client FQDN Option" [4] includes a description of the operation
   of DHCPv4 [8] clients and servers that use the DHCPv4 client FQDN
   option.  And, "The DHCPv6 Client FQDN Option" [5] includes a
   description of the operation of DHCPv6 [10] clients and servers that
   use the DHCPv6 client FQDN option.  Through the use of the client
   FQDN option, DHCP clients and servers can negotiate the client's FQDN
   and the allocation of responsibility for updating the DHCP client's A
   and/or AAAA RRs.  This document identifies situations in which
   conflicts in the use of FQDNs may arise among DHCP clients and
   servers, and describes a strategy for the use of the DHCID DNS
   resource record [2] in resolving those conflicts.

   In any case, whether a site permits all, some, or no DHCP servers and
   clients to perform DNS updates (RFC 2136 [3], RFC 3007 [12]) into the
   zones that it controls is entirely a matter of local administrative
   policy.  This document does not require any specific administrative
   policy, and does not propose one.  The range of possible policies is
   very broad, from sites where only the DHCP servers have been given
   credentials that the DNS servers will accept, to sites where each
   individual DHCP client has been configured with credentials that
   allow the client to modify its own FQDN.  Compliant implementations
   MAY support some or all of these possibilities.  Furthermore, this
   specification applies only to DHCP client and server processes; it
   does not apply to other processes that initiate DNS updates.

3.  Issues with DNS Update in DHCP Environments

   There are two DNS update situations that require special
   consideration in DHCP environments: cases where more than one DHCP
   client has been configured with the same FQDN and cases where more
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   in a zone.  In these cases, it is possible for DNS records to be
   modified in inconsistent ways unless the updaters have a mechanism
   that allows them to detect anomalous situations.  If DNS updaters can
   detect these situations, site administrators can configure the
   updaters' behavior so that the site's policies can be enforced.  This
   specification describes a mechanism designed to allow updaters to
   detect these situations, and suggests that DHCP implementations use
   this mechanism by default.

3.1  Client Misconfiguration

   Administrators may wish to maintain a one-to-one relationship between
   active DHCP clients and FQDNs, and to maintain consistency between a
   client's A, AAAA, and PTR RRs.  Clients that are not represented in
   the DNS, or clients that inadvertently share an FQDN with another
   client may encounter inconsistent behavior or may not be able to
   obtain access to network resources.  Whether each DHCP client is
   configured with a FQDN by its administrator or whether the DHCP
   server is configured to distribute the clients' FQDN, the consistency
   of the DNS data is entirely dependent on the accuracy of the
   configuration procedure.  Sites that deploy Secure DNS [11] may
   configure credentials for each client and its assigned FQDN in a way
   that is more error-resistant, as both the FQDN and credentials must
   match.

   Consider an example in which two DHCP clients in the "org.nil"
   network are both configured with the hostname "foo".  The clients are
   permitted to perform their own DNS updates.  The first client, client
   A, is configured via DHCP.  It adds an A RR to "foo.org.nil", and its
   DHCP server adds a PTR RR corresponding to its assigned IP address.
   When the second client, client B, boots, it is also configured via
   DHCP, and it also begins to update "foo.org.nil".

   At this point, the "org.nil" administrators may wish to establish
   some policy about DHCP clients' FQDNs.  If the policy is that each
   client that boots should replace any existing A RR that matches its
   FQDN, Client B can proceed, though Client A may encounter problems.
   In this example, Client B replaces the A RR associated with
   "foo.org.nil".  Client A must have some way to recognize that the RR
   associated with "foo.org.nil" now contains information for Client B,
   so that it can avoid modifying the RR.  When Client A's assigned IP
   address expires, for example, it should not remove a RR that reflects
   Client B's DHCP assigned IP address.

   If the policy is that the first DHCP client with a given FQDN should
   be the only client associated with that FQDN, Client B needs to be
   able to determine if it is not the client associated with
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   Client B should choose another FQDN.  Or it could be that B has
   booted on a new subnet, and received a new IP address assignment, in
   which case B should update the DNS with its new IP address.  It must
   either retain persistent state about the last IP address it was
   assigned (in addition to its current IP address) or it must have some
   other way to detect that it was the last updater of "foo.org.nil" in
   order to implement the site's policy.

3.2  Multiple DHCP Servers

   It is possible to arrange for DHCP servers to perform A and/or AAAA
   RR updates on behalf of their clients.  If a single DHCP server
   manages all of the DHCP clients at a site, it can maintain a database
   of the FQDNs in use, and can check that database before assigning a
   FQDN to a client.  Such a database is necessarily proprietary,
   however, and the approach does not work once more than one DHCP
   server is deployed.

   When multiple DHCP servers are deployed, the servers require a way to
   coordinate the identities of DHCP clients.  Consider an example in
   which DHCP Client A boots, obtains an IP address from Server S1,
   presenting the hostname "foo" in a Client FQDN option [4] in its
   DHCPREQUEST message.  Server S1 updates the FQDN "foo.org.nil",
   adding an A RR containing the IP address assigned to A. The client
   then moves to another subnet, served by Server S2.  When Client A
   boots on the new subnet, Server S2 will assign it a new IP address,
   and will attempt to add an A RR containing the newly assigned IP
   address to the FQDN "foo.org.nil".  At this point, without some
   communication mechanism which S2 can use to ask S1 (and every other
   DHCP server that updates the zone) about the client, S2 has no way to
   know whether Client A is currently associated with the FQDN, or
   whether A is a different client configured with the same FQDN.  If
   the servers cannot distinguish between these situations, they cannot
   enforce the site's naming policies.

4.  Use of the DHCID RR

   A solution to both of these problems is for the updater (a DHCP
   client or DHCP server) to be able to determine which DHCP client has
   been associated with a FQDN, in order to offer administrators the
   opportunity to configure updater behavior.

   For this purpose, a DHCID RR, specified in [2], is used to associate
   client identification information with a FQDN and the A, AAAA, and
   PTR RRs associated with that FQDN.  When either a client or server
   adds A, AAAA, or PTR RRs for a client, it also adds a DHCID RR that
   specifies a unique client identity, based on data from the client's
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   with a given FQDN at a time.

   By associating this ownership information with each FQDN, cooperating
   DNS updaters may determine whether their client is currently
   associated with a particular FQDN and implement the appropriately
   configured administrative policy.  In addition, DHCP clients which
   currently have FQDNs may move from one DHCP server to another without
   losing their FQDNs.

   The specific algorithm utilizing the DHCID RR to signal client
   ownership is explained below.  The algorithm only works in the case
   where the updating entities all cooperate -- this approach is
   advisory only and is not a substitute for DNS security, nor is it
   replaced by DNS security.

5.  DNS RR TTLs

   RRs associated with DHCP clients may be more volatile than statically
   configured RRs.  DHCP clients and servers that perform dynamic
   updates should attempt to specify resource record TTLs which reflect
   this volatility, in order to minimize the possibility that answers to
   DNS queries will return records that refer to DHCP IP address
   assignments that have expired or been released.

   The coupling among primary, secondary, and caching DNS servers is
   'loose'; that is a fundamental part of the design of the DNS.  This
   looseness makes it impossible to prevent all possible situations in
   which a resolver may return a record reflecting a DHCP assigned IP
   address that has expired or been released.  In deployment, this
   rarely, if ever, represents a significant problem.  Most DHCP-managed
   clients are infrequently looked-up by name in the DNS, and the
   deployment of IXFR (RFC 1995 [15]) and NOTIFY (RFC 1996 [16]) can
   reduce the latency between updates and their visibility at secondary
   servers.

   We suggest these basic guidelines for implementers.  In general, the
   TTLs for RRs added as a result of DHCP IP address assignment activity
   SHOULD be less than the initial lease time or lifetime.  The RR TTL
   on a DNS record added SHOULD NOT exceed 1/3 of the lease time or
   lifetime, and SHOULD be at least 10 minutes.  We recognize that
   individual administrators will have varying requirements: DHCP
   servers and clients SHOULD allow administrators to configure TTLs and
   upper and lower bounds on the TTL values, either as an absolute time
   interval or as a percentage of the lease time or lifetime.

   While clients and servers MAY update the TTL of the records as the
   lease or lifetime is about to expire, there is no requirement that
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   little benefit.

6.  Procedures for performing DNS updates

6.1  Error Return Codes

   Certain RCODEs defined in RFC 2136 [3] indicate that the destination
   DNS server cannot perform an update: FORMERR, SERVFAIL, REFUSED,
   NOTIMP.  If one of these RCODEs is returned, the updater MUST
   terminate its update attempt.  Because these errors may indicate a
   misconfiguration of the updater or of the DNS server, the updater MAY
   attempt to signal to its administrator that an error has occurred,
   e.g. through a log message.

6.2  Dual IPv4/IPv6 Client Considerations

   At the time of publication of this document, a small minority of DHCP
   clients support both IPv4 and IPv6.  We anticipate, however, that a
   transition will take place over a period of time, and more sites will
   have dual-stack clients present.  IPv6 clients require updates of
   AAAA RRs; IPv4 client require updates of A RRs.  The administrators
   of mixed deployments will likely wish to permit a single FQDN to
   contain A and AAAA RRs from the same client.

   Sites that wish to permit a single FQDN to contain both A and AAAA
   RRs MUST make use of DHCPv4 clients and servers that support using
   the DHCP Unique Identifier (DUID) for DHCPv4 client identifiers such
   that this DUID is used in computing the RDATA of the DHCID RR by both
   DHCPv4 and DHCPv6 for the client, see Node-Specific Client
   Identifiers for DHCPv4 [6].  Otherwise, a dual-stack client that uses
   older-style DHCPv4 client identifiers (see [8] and [9]) will only be
   able to have either its A or AAAA records in DNS under a single FQDN
   because of the DHCID RR conflicts that result.

6.3  Adding A and/or AAAA RRs to DNS

   When a DHCP client or server intends to update A and/or AAAA RRs, it
   has two choices as to where to start the update sequence.  The choice
   of whether to start with the lookup query in Section 6.3.1 or to
   start directly with the update in Section 6.3.2 is left to the
   implementer.

   Implementers MAY use other algorithms, provided that the algorithm
   assures that the DNS updates are done with the proper prerequisites
   to prevent incorrect or incomplete updates should multiple updaters
   be updating the same FQDN at once.

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   limit the total number of attempts for a single transaction.

6.3.1  Initial DHCID RR Query

   When a DHCP client or server intends to update A and/or AAAA RRs, it
   performs a DNS query with QNAME of the target FQDN and with QTYPE of
   DHCID.

   If the query returns NXDOMAIN, the updater can conclude that the FQDN
   is not in use and proceeds to Section 6.3.2.

   If the query returns NOERROR but without an answer, the updater can
   conclude that the target FQDN is in use, but that no DHCID RR is
   present.  This indicates that some records have been configured by an
   administrator.  Whether the updater proceeds with the update is a
   matter of local administrative policy.  Or, the updater may proceed
   to Section 6.3.4.

   If the query returns NOERROR with a DHCID rrset, the updater uses the
   hash calculation defined in the DHCID RR specification [2] to
   determine whether the client associated with the FQDN matches the
   current client's identity.  If so, the updater proceeds to
   Section 6.3.3.  Otherwise the updater must conclude that the client's
   desired FQDN is in use by another client and proceeds to
   Section 6.3.4.

   If any other status is returned, the updater SHOULD NOT attempt an
   update.

6.3.2  DNS UPDATE When FQDN Not in Use

   The updater prepares a DNS UPDATE query that includes as a
   prerequisite the assertion that the FQDN does not exist.  The update
   section of the query attempts to add the new FQDN and its IP address
   mapping (A and/or AAAA RRs) and the DHCID RR with its unique client
   identity.

   If the update operation succeeds, the A and/or AAAA RR update is now
   complete (and a client updater is finished, while a server would then
   proceed to perform a PTR RR update).

   If the update returns YXDOMAIN, the updater can now conclude that the
   intended FQDN is in use and proceeds to Section 6.3.3.

6.3.3  DNS UPDATE When FQDN in Use

   The updater next attempts to confirm that the FQDN is not being used
   by some other client by preparing an UPDATE query in which there are



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   two prerequisites.  The first prerequisite is that the FQDN exists.
   The second is that the desired FQDN has attached to it a DHCID RR
   whose contents match the client identity.  The update section of the
   UPDATE query contains:
   1.  A delete of any existing A RRs on the FQDN if this is an A update
       or an AAAA update and the updater does not desire A records on
       the FQDN.
   2.  A delete of the existing AAAA RRs on the FQDN if the updater does
       not desire AAAA records on the FQDN or this update is adding an
       AAAA and the updater only desires a single IP address on the
       FQDN.
   3.  An add of the A RR that matches the DHCP binding if this is an A
       update.
   4.  Adds of the AAAA RRs that match the DHCP bindings if this is an
       AAAA update.

   If the update succeeds, the updater can conclude that the current
   client was the last client associated with the FQDN, and that the
   FQDN now contains the updated A and/or AAAA RRs.  The update is now
   complete (and a client updater is finished, while a server would then
   proceed to perform a PTR RR update).

   If the update returns NXDOMAIN, the FQDN is no longer in use and the
   updater proceeds to Section 6.3.2.

   If the update returns NXRRSET, there are two possibilities - there
   are no DHCID RRs for the FQDN or the DHCID RR does not match.  In
   either case, the updater proceeds to Section 6.3.4.

6.3.4  FQDN in Use by another Client

   At this juncture, the updater can decide (based on some
   administrative configuration outside of the scope of this document)
   whether to let the existing owner of the FQDN keep that FQDN, and to
   (possibly) perform some FQDN disambiguation operation on behalf of
   the current client, or to replace the RRs on the FQDN with RRs that
   represent the current client.  If the configured policy allows
   replacement of existing records, the updater submits a query that
   deletes all RRs for the FQDN and adds the A and/or AAAA and DHCID RRs
   that represent the IP address and client identity of the new client.

   Techniques that may be considered to disambiguate FQDNs include
   adding some suffix or prefix to the hostname portion of the FQDN or
   randomly generating a hostname.


      DISCUSSION:




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      The updating entity may be configured to allow the existing DNS
      records on the FQDN to remain unchanged, and to perform
      disambiguation on the FQDN of the current client in order to
      attempt to generate a similar but unique FQDN for the current
      client.  In this case, once another candidate FQDN has been
      generated, the updater should restart the process of adding A
      and/or AAAA RRs as specified in this section.

6.4  Adding PTR RR Entries to DNS

   The DHCP server submits a DNS query that deletes all of the PTR RRs
   associated with the client's assigned IP address, and adds a PTR RR
   whose data is the client's (possibly disambiguated) FQDN.  The server
   MAY also add a DHCID RR as specified in Section 4, in which case it
   would include a delete of all of the DHCID RRs associated with the
   client's assigned IP address, and adds a DHCID RR for the client.

   There is no need to validate the DHCID RR for PTR updates as the DHCP
   server (or servers) only assigns an address to a single client at a
   time.

6.5  Removing Entries from DNS

   The most important consideration in removing DNS entries is be sure
   that an entity removing a DNS entry is only removing an entry that it
   added, or for which an administrator has explicitly assigned it
   responsibility.

   When an address' lease time or valid lifetime expires or a DHCP
   client issues a DHCPRELEASE [8] or Release [10] request, the DHCP
   server SHOULD delete the PTR RR that matches the DHCP binding, if one
   was successfully added.  The server's update query SHOULD assert that
   the domain name (PTRDNAME field) in the PTR record matches the FQDN
   of the client whose address has expired or been released and should
   delete all RRs for the FQDN.

   The entity chosen to handle the A or AAAA records for this client
   (either the client or the server) SHOULD delete the A or AAAA records
   that was added when the address was assigned to the client.  However,
   the updater should only remove the DHCID RR if there are no A or AAAA
   RRs remaining for the client.

   In order to perform this A or AAAA RR delete, the updater prepares an
   UPDATE query that contains a prerequisite that asserts that the DHCID
   RR exists whose data is the client identity described in Section 4
   and contains an update section that deletes the client's specific A
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   If the query succeeds, the updater prepares a second UPDATE query
   that contains three prerequisites and contains an update section that
   deletes all RRs for the FQDN.  The first prerequisite asserts that
   the DHCID RR exists whose data is the client identity described in
   Section 4.  The second prerequisite asserts that there are no A RRs.
   The third prerequisite asserts that there are no AAAA RRs.

   If either query fails, the updater MUST NOT delete the FQDN.  It may
   be that the client whose address has expired has moved to another
   network and obtained an address from a different server, which has
   caused the client's A or AAAA RR to be replaced.  It may also be that
   some other client has been configured with a FQDN that matches the
   FQDN of the DHCP client, and the policy was that the last client to
   specify the FQDN would get the FQDN.  In these cases, the DHCID RR
   will no longer match the updater's notion of the client identity of
   the client pointed to by the FQDN.

6.6  Updating Other RRs

   The procedures described in this document only cover updates to the
   A, AAAA, PTR, and DHCID RRs.  Updating other types of RRs is outside
   the scope of this document.

7.  Security Considerations

   Administrators should be wary of permitting unsecured DNS updates to
   zones, where or not they are exposed to the global Internet.  Both
   DHCP clients and servers SHOULD use some form of update request
   authentication (e.g., TSIG [13]) when performing DNS updates.

   Whether a DHCP client may be responsible for updating an FQDN to IP
   address mapping, or whether this is the responsibility of the DHCP
   server is a site-local matter.  The choice between the two
   alternatives may be based on the security model that is used with the
   Dynamic DNS Update protocol (e.g., only a client may have sufficient
   credentials to perform updates to the FQDN to IP address mapping for
   its FQDN).

   Whether a DHCP server is always responsible for updating the FQDN to
   IP address mapping (in addition to updating the IP to FQDN mapping),
   regardless of the wishes of an individual DHCP client, is also a
   site-local matter.  The choice between the two alternatives may be
   based on the security model that is being used with dynamic DNS
   updates.  In cases where a DHCP server is performing DNS updates on
   behalf of a client, the DHCP server should be sure of the FQDN to use
   for the client, and of the identity of the client.

   Currently, it is difficult for DHCP servers to develop much



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   confidence in the identities of their clients, given the absence of
   entity authentication from the DHCP protocol itself.  There are many
   ways for a DHCP server to develop a FQDN to use for a client, but
   only in certain relatively rare circumstances will the DHCP server
   know for certain the identity of the client.  If DHCP Authentication
   [14] becomes widely deployed this may become more customary.

   One example of a situation that offers some extra assurances is when
   the DHCP client is connected to a network through a DOCSIS cable
   modem, and the Cable Modem Termination System (head-end) of the cable
   modem ensures that MAC address spoofing simply does not occur.
   Another example of a configuration that might be trusted is when
   clients obtain network access via a network access server using PPP.
   The Network Access Server (NAS) itself might be obtaining IP
   addresses via DHCP, encoding client identification into the DHCP
   client-id option.  In this case, the NAS as well as the DHCP server
   might be operating within a trusted environment, in which case the
   DHCP server could be configured to trust that the user authentication
   and authorization processing of the NAS was sufficient, and would
   therefore trust the client identification encoded within the DHCP
   client-id.

8.  Acknowledgements

   Many thanks to Mark Beyer, Jim Bound, Ralph Droms, Robert Elz, Peter
   Ford, Olafur Gudmundsson, Edie Gunter, Andreas Gustafsson, R. Barr
   Hibbs, Kim Kinnear, Stuart Kwan, Ted Lemon, Ed Lewis, Michael Lewis,
   Josh Littlefield, Michael Patton, and Glenn Stump for their review
   and comments.

9.  References

9.1  Normative References

   [1]  Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement
        Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997.

   [2]  Stapp, M., Gustafsson, A., and T. Lemon, "A DNS RR for Encoding
        DHCP Information (draft-ietf-dnsext-dhcid-rr-*)", February 2005.

   [3]  Vixie, P., Thomson, S., Rekhter, Y., and J. Bound, "Dynamic
        Updates in the Domain Name System (DNS UPDATE)", RFC 2136,
        April 1997.

9.2  Informative References

   [4]   Stapp, M. and Y. Rekhter, "The DHCP Client FQDN Option
         (draft-ietf-dhc-fqdn-option-*.txt)", February 2005.



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   [5]   Volz, B., "The DHCPv6 Client FQDN Option
         (draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv6-fqdn-*.txt)", February 2005.

   [6]   Lemon, T. and B. Sommerfeld, "Node-Specific Client Identifiers
         for DHCPv4 (draft-ietf-dhc-3315id-for-v4-*txt)", June 2005.

   [7]   Malkin, G., "Internet Users' Glossary", RFC 1983, August 1996.

   [8]   Droms, R., "Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol", RFC 2131,
         March 1997.

   [9]   Alexander, S. and R. Droms, "DHCP Options and BOOTP Vendor
         Extensions", RFC 2132, March 1997.

   [10]  Droms, R., Bound, J., Volz, B., Lemon, T., Perkins, C., and M.
         Carney, "Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6
         (DHCPv6)", RFC 3315, July 2003.

   [11]  Eastlake, D., "Domain Name System Security Extensions",
         RFC 2535, March 1999.

   [12]  Wellington, B., "Secure Domain Name System (DNS) Dynamic
         Update", RFC 3007, November 2000.

   [13]  Vixie, P., Gudmundsson, O., Eastlake, D., and B. Wellington,
         "Secret Key Transaction Authentication for DNS (TSIG)",
         RFC 2845, May 2000.

   [14]  Droms, R. and W. Arbaugh, "Authentication for DHCP Messages",
         RFC 3118, June 2001.

   [15]  Ohta, M., "Incremental Zone Transfer in DNS", RFC 1995,
         August 1996.

   [16]  Vixie, P., "A Mechanism for Prompt Notification of Zone Changes
         (DNS NOTIFY)", RFC 1996, August 1996.















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Authors' Addresses

   Mark Stapp
   Cisco Systems, Inc.
   1414 Massachusetts Ave.
   Boxborough, MA  01719
   USA

   Phone: 978.936.1535
   Email: mjs@cisco.com


   Bernie Volz
   Cisco Systems, Inc.
   1414 Massachusetts Ave.
   Boxborough, MA  01719
   USA

   Phone: 978.936.0382
   Email: volz@cisco.com































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