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Last Call Review of draft-ietf-dnssd-hybrid-07
review-ietf-dnssd-hybrid-07-opsdir-lc-jaeggli-2017-10-22-00

Request Review of draft-ietf-dnssd-hybrid-07
Requested revision 07 (document currently at 10)
Type Last Call Review
Team Ops Directorate (opsdir)
Deadline 2017-10-11
Requested 2017-09-27
Requested by Terry Manderson
Authors Stuart Cheshire
I-D last updated 2017-10-22
Completed reviews Iotdir Last Call review of -07 by Ralph Droms (diff)
Opsdir Last Call review of -07 by Joel Jaeggli (diff)
Genart Last Call review of -07 by Joel M. Halpern (diff)
Secdir Last Call review of -07 by Dan Harkins (diff)
Comments
Please review this document especially in light of DNS semantics, DNS operation, and implications (if any) in IoT.
Assignment Reviewer Joel Jaeggli
State Completed
Request Last Call review on draft-ietf-dnssd-hybrid by Ops Directorate Assigned
Reviewed revision 07 (document currently at 10)
Result Has nits
Completed 2017-10-22
review-ietf-dnssd-hybrid-07-opsdir-lc-jaeggli-2017-10-22-00
I reviewed this draft draft-ietf-dnssd-hybrid-07 on behalf of the operations
and management area directorate.

While the security considerations do address the problem of  information
leakage from publishing information in DNS zones that may be resolvable from
outside the administrative zone that they are intended to be used in, I think
the reverse zone and in particular the IPv4 reverse zone are particularly
subject to this problem. if the nameservers serving the reverse zone are those
to which the public ipv4 prefix is delegated then is is possible to walk the
zone, trolling for hosts that may not otherwise be easy to identify (because
you do not know apriori what services they might be advertising).  This might
identify particular hosts, but it also might be used to identify subnets  in
which  dynamic allocation occur or where hosts come and go. I think it would be
desirable to provide explanatory texts on the potential dangers of exposing the
reverse zones in particular.