Traversal Using Relays around NAT (TURN) Server Auto Discovery
RFC 8155
| Document | Type |
RFC - Proposed Standard
(April 2017; No errata)
Updates RFC 5766
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|---|---|---|---|
| Last updated | 2018-12-20 | ||
| Replaces | draft-patil-tram-turn-serv-disc | ||
| Stream | IETF | ||
| Formats | plain text pdf html bibtex | ||
| Reviews | |||
| Stream | WG state | Submitted to IESG for Publication (wg milestone: Nov 2015 - Send new TURN server... ) | |
| Document shepherd | Simon Perreault | ||
| Shepherd write-up | Show (last changed 2016-07-13) | ||
| IESG | IESG state | RFC 8155 (Proposed Standard) | |
| Consensus Boilerplate | Yes | ||
| Telechat date | |||
| Responsible AD | Spencer Dawkins | ||
| Send notices to | "Simon Perreault" <sperreault@jive.com> | ||
| IANA | IANA review state | Version Changed - Review Needed | |
| IANA action state | RFC-Ed-Ack | ||
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) P. Patil
Request for Comments: 8155 T. Reddy
Updates: 5766 Cisco
Category: Standards Track D. Wing
ISSN: 2070-1721 April 2017
Traversal Using Relays around NAT (TURN) Server Auto Discovery
Abstract
Current Traversal Using Relays around NAT (TURN) server discovery
mechanisms are relatively static and limited to explicit
configuration. These are usually under the administrative control of
the application or TURN service provider, and not the enterprise,
ISP, or the network in which the client is located. Enterprises and
ISPs wishing to provide their own TURN servers need auto-discovery
mechanisms that a TURN client could use with minimal or no
configuration. This document describes three such mechanisms for
TURN server discovery.
This document updates RFC 5766 to relax the requirement for mutual
authentication in certain cases.
Status of This Memo
This is an Internet Standards Track document.
This document is a product of the Internet Engineering Task Force
(IETF). It represents the consensus of the IETF community. It has
received public review and has been approved for publication by the
Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG). Further information on
Internet Standards is available in Section 2 of RFC 7841.
Information about the current status of this document, any errata,
and how to provide feedback on it may be obtained at
http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8155.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2. Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
3. Discovery Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
4. Discovery Using Service Resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
4.1. Retrieving Domain Name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
4.1.1. DHCP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
4.1.2. From Own Identity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
4.2. Resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
5. DNS Service Discovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
5.1. mDNS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
6. Discovery Using Anycast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
7. Deployment Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
7.1. Mobility and Changing IP Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . 8
7.2. Recursively Encapsulated TURN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
8. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
8.1. IPv4 Anycast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
8.2. IPv6 Anycast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
9. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
9.1. Service Resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
9.2. DNS Service Discovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
9.3. Anycast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
10. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
10.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
10.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
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1. Introduction
TURN [RFC5766] is a protocol that is often used to improve the
connectivity of Peer-to-Peer (P2P) applications (as defined in
Section 2.7 of [RFC5128]). TURN allows a connection to be
established when one or both sides are incapable of a direct P2P
connection. It is an important building block for interactive, real-
time communication using audio, video, collaboration, etc.
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