Domain Name System (DNS) IANA Considerations
RFC 5395
Document | Type |
RFC - Best Current Practice
(November 2008; Errata)
Obsoleted by RFC 6195
Obsoletes RFC 2929
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Author | Donald Eastlake | ||
Last updated | 2020-01-21 | ||
Stream | IETF | ||
Formats | plain text html pdf htmlized with errata bibtex | ||
Reviews | |||
Stream | WG state | (None) | |
Document shepherd | No shepherd assigned | ||
IESG | IESG state | RFC 5395 (Best Current Practice) | |
Consensus Boilerplate | Unknown | ||
Telechat date | |||
Responsible AD | Mark Townsley | ||
Send notices to | (None) |
Network Working Group D. Eastlake 3rd Request for Comments: 5395 Stellar Switches BCP: 42 November 2008 Obsoletes: 2929 Updates: 1183, 3597 Category: Best Current Practice Domain Name System (DNS) IANA Considerations Status of This Memo This document specifies an Internet Best Current Practices for the Internet Community, and requests discussion and suggestions for improvements. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. Copyright Notice Copyright (c) 2008 IETF Trust and the persons identified as the document authors. All rights reserved. This document is subject to BCP 78 and the IETF Trust's Legal Provisions Relating to IETF Documents (http://trustee.ietf.org/license-info) in effect on the date of publication of this document. Please review these documents carefully, as they describe your rights and restrictions with respect to this document. Abstract Internet Assigned Number Authority (IANA) parameter assignment considerations are specified for the allocation of Domain Name System (DNS) resource record types, CLASSes, operation codes, error codes, DNS protocol message header bits, and AFSDB resource record subtypes. Eastlake Best Current Practice [Page 1] RFC 5395 DNS IANA Considerations November 2008 Table of Contents 1. Introduction ....................................................2 1.1. Terminology ................................................2 2. DNS Query/Response Headers ......................................3 2.1. One Spare Bit? .............................................4 2.2. OpCode Assignment ..........................................4 2.3. RCODE Assignment ...........................................4 3. DNS Resource Records ............................................6 3.1. RRTYPE IANA Considerations .................................7 3.1.1. DNS RRTYPE Allocation Policy ........................8 3.1.2. DNS RRTYPE Expert Guidelines ........................9 3.1.3. Special Note on the OPT RR ..........................9 3.1.4. The AFSDB RR Subtype Field .........................10 3.2. RR CLASS IANA Considerations ..............................10 3.3. Label Considerations ......................................12 3.3.1. Label Types ........................................12 3.3.2. Label Contents and Use .............................12 4. Security Considerations ........................................13 5. IANA Considerations ............................................13 Appendix A. RRTYPE Allocation Template ............................14 Normative References ..............................................15 Informative References ............................................16 1. Introduction The Domain Name System (DNS) provides replicated distributed secure hierarchical databases that store "resource records" (RRs) under domain names. DNS data is structured into CLASSes and zones that can be independently maintained. See [RFC1034], [RFC1035], [RFC2136], [RFC2181], and [RFC4033], familiarity with which is assumed. This document provides, either directly or by reference, the general IANA parameter assignment considerations that apply across DNS query and response headers and all RRs. There may be additional IANA considerations that apply to only a particular RRTYPE or query/response OpCode. See the specific RFC defining that RRTYPE or query/response OpCode for such considerations if they have been defined, except for AFSDB RR considerations [RFC1183], which are included herein. This RFC obsoletes [RFC2929]. IANA currently maintains a web page of DNS parameters available from http://www.iana.org. 1.1. Terminology "IETF Standards Action", "IETF Review", "Specification Required", and "Private Use" are as defined in [RFC5226]. Eastlake Best Current Practice [Page 2] RFC 5395 DNS IANA Considerations November 2008 2. DNS Query/Response Headers The header for DNS queries and responses contains field/bits in the following diagram taken from [RFC2136] and [RFC2929]: 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 +--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+ | ID | +--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+ |QR| OpCode |AA|TC|RD|RA| Z|AD|CD| RCODE | +--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+ | QDCOUNT/ZOCOUNT |Show full document text