IPv6 WG M. Crawford
Internet-Draft Fermilab
Expires: November 6, 2005 B. Haberman, Ed.
JHU APL
May 5, 2005
IPv6 Node Information Queries
draft-ietf-ipngwg-icmp-name-lookups-11
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Abstract
This document describes a protocol for asking an IPv6 node to supply
certain network information, such as its hostname or fully-qualified
domain name. IPv6 implementation experience has shown that direct
queries for a hostname are useful, and a direct query mechanism for
other information has been found useful in serverless environments
and for debugging.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2. Applicability Statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
3. Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
4. Node Information Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
5. Message Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
6. Defined Qtypes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
6.1 NOOP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
6.2 Node Name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
6.3 Node Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
6.4 IPv4 Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
6.4.1 Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
7. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
8. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
9. Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
10. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
10.1 Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
10.2 Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Intellectual Property and Copyright Statements . . . . . . . . 14
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1. Introduction
This document specifies a mechanism for discovering information about
names and addresses. The applicability of these mechanics is
currently limited to diagnostic and debugging tools. In the global
internet, the Domain Name System[1][2] is the authoritative source of
such information and this specification is not intended to supplant
or supersede it. And in fact, in a well-supported network the names
and addresses dealt with by this mechanism will be the same ones, and
with the same relationships, as those listed in the DNS.
This new Node Information protocol does provide facilities which are
not found in the DNS - for example discovering relationships between
addresses without reference to names. And the functions that do
overlap with the DNS may be useful in serverless environments, for
debugging, or in regard to link-local and unique-local addresses [3]
which often will not be listed in the DNS.
2. Applicability Statement
IPv6 Node Information Queries include the capability to provide
forward and reverse name lookups independent of the DNS by sending
packets directly to IPv6 nodes or groups of nodes.
The applicability of these mechanics is currently limited to
diagnostic and debugging tools. These mechanisms can be used to
learn the addresses and names for nodes on the other end of a point-
to-point link or nodes on a shared-medium link such as an Ethernet.
This is very useful when debugging problems or when bringing up IPv6
service where there isn't global routing or DNS name services
available. IPv6's large auto-configured addresses make debugging
network problems and bringing up IPv6 service difficult without these
mechanisms. An example of a IPv6 debugging tool using IPv6 Node
Information Queries is the ping6 program in the KAME, USAGI, and
other IPv6 implementations <http://www.kame.net>.
The mechanisms defined in this document may have wider applicability
in the future (for example, name lookups in zero configuration
networks, global reverse name lookups, etc.), but any use beyond
debugging and diagnostic tools is left for further study and is
beyond the scope of this document.
3. Terminology
A "Node Information (or NI) Query" message is sent by a "Querier"
node to a "Responder" node in an ICMPv6 packet addressed to the
"Queried Address." The Query concerns a "Subject Address" (which may
differ from the Queried Address) or a "Subject Name". The Responder
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sends a "Node Information Reply" to the Querier, containing
information associated with the node at the Queried Address. A node
receiving a NI Query will be termed a Responder even if it does not
send a reply.
The word "name" in this document refers to a hostname with or without
the domain. Where necessary, the cases of fully-qalified and single-
label names will be distinguished.
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 [4].
Packet fields marked "unused" must be zero on transmission and, aside
from inclusion in checksums or message integrity checks, ignored on
reception.
4. Node Information Messages
Two types of Node Information messages, the NI Query and the NI
Reply, are carried in ICMPv6 [5] packets. They have the same format.
0 1 2 3
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Type | Code | Checksum |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Qtype | Flags |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| |
+ Nonce +
| |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| |
/ Data /
| |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Fields:
o Type
* 139 - NI Query
* 140 - NI Reply
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o Code
* For NI Query
+ 0 - Indicates that the Data field contains an IPv6 address
which is the Subject of this Query.
+ 1 - Indicates that the Data field contains a name which is
the Subject of this Query, or is empty, as in the case of a
NOOP or Supported Qtypes query.
+ 2 - Indicates that the Data field contains an IPv4 address
which is the Subject of this Query.
* For NI Reply
+ 0 - Indicates a successful reply. The Reply Data field may
or may not be empty.
+ 1 - Indicates that the Responder refuses to supply the
answer. The Reply Data field will be empty.
+ 2 - Indicates that the Qtype of the Query is unknown to the
Responder. The Reply Data field will be empty.
o Checksum - The ICMPv6 checksum.
o Qtype - A 16-bit field which designates the type of information
requested in a Query or supplied in a Reply. Its value in a Reply
is always copied from the corresponding Query by the Responder.
Five values of Qtype are specified in this document.
o Flags - Qtype-specific flags which may be defined for certain
Query types and their Replies. Flags not defined for a given
Qtype must be zero on transmission and ignored on reception, and
must not be copied from a Query to a Reply unless so specified in
the definition of the Qtype.
o Nonce - An opaque 64-bit field to help avoid spoofing and/or to
aid in matching Replies with Queries. Its value in a Query is
chosen by the Querier. Its value in a Reply is always copied from
the corresponding Request by the Responder.
o Data - In a Query, the Subject Address or Name. In a Reply,
Qtype-specific data present only when the ICMPv6 Code field is
zero. The length of the Data may be inferred from the IPv6
header's Payload Length field [2460], the length of the fixed
portion of the NI packet and the lengths of the ICMPv6 header and
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intervening extension headers.
Note that the type of information present in the Data field of a
Query is declared by the ICMP Code, while the type of information, if
any, in the Data field of a Reply is determined by the Qtype.
When the Subject of a Query is a name, the name MUST be in DNS wire
format [2]. The name may be either a fully-qualified domain name,
including the terminating zero-length label, or a single DNS label
followed by two zero-length labels. Since a Query contains at most
one name, DNS name compression MUST NOT be used.
5. Message Processing
The Querier constructs an ICMP NI Query and sends it to the address
from which information is wanted. When the Subject of the Query is
an IPv6 address, that address will normally be used as the IPv6
destination address of the Query, but need not be if the Querier has
useful a priori information about the addresses of the target node.
An NI Query may also be sent to a multicast address of link-local
scope [3].
When the Subject is a name, either fully-qualified or single-
component, and the Querier does not have a unicast address for the
target node, the query MUST be sent to a link-scope multicast address
formed in the following way. The Subject Name is converted to the
canonical form defined by DNS Security [6], which is uncompressed
with all alphabetic characters in lower case. (If additional DNS
label types or character sets for host names are defined, the rules
for canonicalizing those labels will be found in their defining
specification.) Compute the MD5 hash [10] of the first label of the
Subject Name -- the portion beginning with the first one-octet length
field and up to, but excluding, any subsequent length field. Append
the first 32 bits of that 128-bit hash to the prefix FF02:0:0:0:0:
2::/96. The resulting multicast address will be termed the "NI Group
Address" for the name. A node will support an "NI Group Address" for
each associated Subject Name.
The Nonce should be a random or good pseudo-random value to foil
spoofed replies. An implementation which allows multiple independent
processes to send NI queries MAY use the Nonce value to deliver
Replies to the correct process. Nonetheless, such processes MUST
check the received Nonce and ignore extraneous Replies.
If true communication security is required, IPsec [11] must be used.
Providing the infrastructure to authenticate NI Queries and Replies
may be quote difficult outside of a well-defined community.
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Upon receiving a NI Query, the Responder must check the Query's IPv6
destination address and discard the Query without further processing
unless it is one of the Responder's unicast or anycast addresses, or
a link-local scope multicast address which the Responder has joined.
Typically the latter will be a NI Group Address for a name belonging
to the Responder or a NI Group Address for a name for which the
Responder is providing proxy service. A node MAY be configurable to
discard NI Queries to multicast addresses other than its NI Group
Address(es) but if so, the default configuration MUST be not to
discard them.
A Responder must also silently discard a Query whose Subject Address
or Name (in the Data field) does not belong to that node, unless it
is providing proxy service for that Subject. A single-component
Subject Name matches any fully-qualified name whose first label
matches the Subject. All name matching is done in a case-
independent manner consistent with DNSSEC name canonicalization [6].
Next, if Qtype is unknown to the Responder, it must return a NI Reply
with ICMPv6 Code = 2 and no Reply Data. The Responder should rate-
limit such replies as it would ICMPv6 error replies [5].
Next, the Responder should decide whether to refuse an answer, based
on local policy. (See "Security Considerations" for recommended
default behavior.) If an answer is refused, the Responder may send a
NI Reply with ICMPv6 Code = 1 and no Reply Data. Again, the
Responder should rate-limit such replies as it would ICMPv6 error
replies [5].
Finally, if the Qtype is known and the response is allowed by local
policy, the Responder must fill in the Flags and Reply Data of the NI
Reply in accordance with the definition of the Qtype and transmit the
NI Reply with an ICMPv6 source address equal to the Queried Address,
unless that address was an anycast or a multicast address. If the
Queried Address was anycast or multicast, the source address for the
Reply SHOULD be one belonging to the interface on which the Query was
received.
If the Query was sent to an anycast or multicast address,
transmission of the Reply MUST be delayed by a random interval
between zero and MAX_ANYCAST_DELAY_TIME, as defined by IPv6 Neighbor
Discovery [7].
6. Defined Qtypes
The following Qtypes are defined. Qtypes 0, 2, and 3 MUST be
supported by any implementation of this protocol. Qtype 4 SHOULD be
supported by any implementation of this protocol on an IPv4/IPv6
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dual-stack node and MAY be supported on an IPv6-only node.
+-------------+----------------+
| Qtype Value | Qtype Name |
+-------------+----------------+
| 0 | NOOP |
| 1 | unused |
| 2 | Node Name |
| 3 | Node Addresses |
| 4 | IPv4 Addresses |
+-------------+----------------+
6.1 NOOP
This NI type has no defined flags and never has a Data field. A
Reply to a NI NOOP Query tells the Querier that a node with the
Queried Address is up and reachable, implements the Node Information
protocol, and incidentally happens to reveal whether the Queried
Address was an anycast address. On transmission, the ICMPv6 Code in
a NOOP Query must be set to 1 and the Code in a NOOP Reply must be 0.
On reception of a NOOP Query or Reply, the Code must be ignored.
6.2 Node Name
The NI Node Name Query requests the fully-qualified or single-
component name corresponding to the Subject Address or Name. The
Reply Data has the following format.
0 1 2 3
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| TTL |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Node Names ... |
+ +
/ /
+ +
| |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
o TTL - MUST be zero. Any non-zero value received MUST be treated
as zero.
o Node Names - The fully-qualified or single-component name or names
of the Responder which correspond(s) to the Subject Address or
Name, in DNS wire format [2]. Each name MUST be fully-qualified
if the responder knows the domain suffix, and otherwise be a
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single DNS label followed by two zero-length labels. When
multiple node names are returned and more than one of them is
fully-qualified, DNS name compression [2] SHOULD be used, and the
offsets are counted from the first octet of the Data field. An
offset of 4, for example, will point to the beginning of the first
name.
The Responder must fill in the TTL field of the Reply with zero.
Only one TTL is included in the reply.
If the Responder does not know its name at all it MUST send a Reply
with TTL=0 and no Node Names (or a Reply with Code=1 indicating
refusal to answer). The Querier will be able to determine from the
packet length that the Data field contains no names.
6.3 Node Addresses
The NI Node Addresses Query requests some set of the Responder's IPv6
unicast addresses. The Reply Data is a sequence of 128-bit IPv6
addresses, each address preceded by separate a 32-bit TTL value, with
Preferred addresses listed before Deprecated addresses [7], but
otherwise in no special order. Five flag bits are defined in the
Query, and six in the Reply.
0 1 2 3
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Qtype=3 | unused |G|S|L|C|A|T|
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
o G - If set to 1, Global-scope addresses [8] are requested.
o S - If set to 1, Site-local addresses [8] are requested.
o L - If set to 1, Link-local addresses [8] are requested.
o C - If set to 1, IPv4-compatible and IPv4-mapped addresses [3] are
requested.
o A - If set to 1, all the Responder's unicast addresses (of the
specified scope(s)) are requested. If 0, only those addresses are
requested which belong to the interface (or any one interface)
which has the Subject Address, or which are associated with the
Subject Name.
o T Defined in a Reply only, indicates that the set of addresses
is incomplete for space reasons.
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Flags G, S, L, C and A are copied from a Query to the corresponding
Reply.
The TTL associated with each address MUST be zero.
IPv4-mapped addresses can only be returned by a Node Information
proxy, since they represent addresses of IPv4-only nodes, which
perforce do not implement this protocol.
6.4 IPv4 Addresses
The NI IPv4 Addresses Query requests some set of the Responder's IPv4
unicast addresses. The Reply Data is a sequence of 32-bit IPv4
addresses, each address preceded by a 32-bit TTL value. One flag bit
is defined in the Query, and two in the Reply.
0 1 2 3
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Qtype=4 | unused |A|T|
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
o A - If set to 1, all the Responder's unicast addresses are
requested. If 0, only those addresses are requested which belong
to the interface (or any one interface) which has the Subject
Address.
o T Defined in a Reply only, indicates that the set of addresses
is incomplete for space reasons.
Flag A is copied from a Query to the corresponding Reply.
The TTL associated with each address MUST be zero.
6.4.1 Discussion
It is possible that a node may treat IPv4 interfaces and IPv6
interfaces as distinct, even though they are associated with the same
hardware. When such a node is responding to a NI Query having a
Subject Address of one type requesting the other type, and the Query
has the A flag set to 0, it SHOULD consider IP interfaces, other than
tunnels, associated with the same hardware as being the same
interface.
7. IANA Considerations
ICMPv6 type values 139 and 140 were previously assigned by IANA for
this protocol. This document defines three values of the ICMPv6 Code
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field for each of these ICMPv6 Type values. Additional Code values
may be defined only by IETF Consensus [12].
This document defines five values of Qtype, numbers 0 through 4.
Following the policies outlined in [12], new values, and their
associated Flags and Reply Data, are to be defined by IETF Consensus.
The IANA is requested to assign the IPv6 multicast prefix FF02:0:0:0:
0:2::/96 for use in Node Information Queries as defined in section
Section 5.
8. Security Considerations
This protocol shares the security issues of ICMPv6 that are
documented in the "Security Considerations" section of [5].
This protocol has the potential of revealing information useful to a
would-be attacker. An implementation of this protocol SHOULD have a
default configuration which refuses to answer queries from global-
scope [3] addresses.
Implementations SHOULD apply rate-limiting to NI responses to avoid
being used in a denial of service attack.
The anti-spoofing Nonce does not give any protection from spoofers
who can eavesdrop the Query or the Reply.
The information learned via this protocol SHOULD not be trusted for
making security relevant decisions unless some other mechanisms
beyond the scope of this document is used to authenticate this
information.
An implementation of this protocol SHOULD provide the ability to
control the dissemination of information related to IPv6 Privacy
Addresses [13]. The default action of this policy SHOULD NOT provide
a reponse to a Query that contains a node's Privacy Addresses.
9. Acknowledgments
Alain Durand contributed to this specification and valuable feedback
and implementation experience was provided by Jun-Ichiro Hagino and
Tatuya Jinmei. Other useful comments were received from Robert Elz
and Keith Moore. Bob Hinden and Brian Haberman have acted as
document editors during the IETF advancement process.
This document is not the first proposal of a direct query mechanism
for address-to-name translation. The idea had been discussed briefly
in the IPng working group and RFC 1788 [14] describes such a
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mechanism for IPv4.
10. References
10.1 Normative References
[1] Mockapetris, P., "Domain names - concepts and facilities",
STD 13, RFC 1034, November 1987.
[2] Mockapetris, P., "Domain names - implementation and
specification", STD 13, RFC 1035, November 1987.
[3] Hinden, R. and S. Deering, "Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)
Addressing Architecture", RFC 3513, April 2003.
[4] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement
Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997.
[5] Conta, A. and S. Deering, "Internet Control Message Protocol
(ICMPv6) for the Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)
Specification", RFC 2463, December 1998.
[6] Eastlake, D., "Domain Name System Security Extensions",
RFC 2535, March 1999.
[7] Narten, T., Nordmark, E., and W. Simpson, "Neighbor Discovery
for IP Version 6 (IPv6)", RFC 2461, December 1998.
[8] Hinden, R. and S. Deering, "An IPv6 Aggregatable Global Unicast
Address Format", RFC 2374, July 1998.
[9] Deering, S. and R. Hinden, "Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6)
Specification", RFC 2460, December 1998.
10.2 Informative References
[10] Rivest, R., "The MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm", RFC 1321,
April 1992.
[11] Kent, S. and R. Atkinson, "Security Architecture for the
Internet Protocol", RFC 2401, November 1998.
[12] Narten, T. and H. Alvestrand, "Guidelines for Writing an IANA
Considerations Section in RFCs", BCP 26, RFC 2434,
October 1998.
[13] Narten, T. and R. Draves, "Privacy Extensions for Stateless
Address Autoconfiguration in IPv6", RFC 3041, January 2001.
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[14] Simpson, W., "ICMP Domain Name Messages", RFC 1788, April 1995.
Authors' Addresses
Matt Crawford
Fermilab
PO Box 500
Batavia, IL 60510
US
Phone: +1 630 840 3461
Email: crawdad@fnal.gov
Brian Haberman (editor)
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab
11100 Johns Hopkins Road
Laurel, MD 20723-6099
US
Phone: +1 443 778 1319
Email: brian@innovationslab.net
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