Extended DNS Errors
RFC 8914
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) W. Kumari
Request for Comments: 8914 Google
Category: Standards Track E. Hunt
ISSN: 2070-1721 ISC
R. Arends
ICANN
W. Hardaker
USC/ISI
D. Lawrence
Salesforce
October 2020
Extended DNS Errors
Abstract
This document defines an extensible method to return additional
information about the cause of DNS errors. Though created primarily
to extend SERVFAIL to provide additional information about the cause
of DNS and DNSSEC failures, the Extended DNS Errors option defined in
this document allows all response types to contain extended error
information. Extended DNS Error information does not change the
processing of RCODEs.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction and Background
1.1. Requirements Notation
2. Extended DNS Error EDNS0 Option Format
3. Extended DNS Error Processing
4. Defined Extended DNS Errors
4.1. Extended DNS Error Code 0 - Other
4.2. Extended DNS Error Code 1 - Unsupported DNSKEY Algorithm
4.3. Extended DNS Error Code 2 - Unsupported DS Digest Type
4.4. Extended DNS Error Code 3 - Stale Answer
4.5. Extended DNS Error Code 4 - Forged Answer
4.6. Extended DNS Error Code 5 - DNSSEC Indeterminate
4.7. Extended DNS Error Code 6 - DNSSEC Bogus
4.8. Extended DNS Error Code 7 - Signature Expired
4.9. Extended DNS Error Code 8 - Signature Not Yet Valid
4.10. Extended DNS Error Code 9 - DNSKEY Missing
4.11. Extended DNS Error Code 10 - RRSIGs Missing
4.12. Extended DNS Error Code 11 - No Zone Key Bit Set
4.13. Extended DNS Error Code 12 - NSEC Missing
4.14. Extended DNS Error Code 13 - Cached Error
4.15. Extended DNS Error Code 14 - Not Ready
4.16. Extended DNS Error Code 15 - Blocked
4.17. Extended DNS Error Code 16 - Censored
4.18. Extended DNS Error Code 17 - Filtered
4.19. Extended DNS Error Code 18 - Prohibited
4.20. Extended DNS Error Code 19 - Stale NXDOMAIN Answer
4.21. Extended DNS Error Code 20 - Not Authoritative
4.22. Extended DNS Error Code 21 - Not Supported
4.23. Extended DNS Error Code 22 - No Reachable Authority
4.24. Extended DNS Error Code 23 - Network Error
4.25. Extended DNS Error Code 24 - Invalid Data
5. IANA Considerations
5.1. A New Extended DNS Error Code EDNS Option
5.2. New Registry for Extended DNS Error Codes
6. Security Considerations
7. References
7.1. Normative References
7.2. Informative References
Acknowledgements
Authors' Addresses
1. Introduction and Background
There are many reasons that a DNS query may fail -- some of them
transient, some permanent; some can be resolved by querying another
server, some are likely best handled by stopping resolution.
Unfortunately, the error signals that a DNS server can return are
very limited and are not very expressive. This means that
applications and resolvers often have to "guess" at what the issue
is, e.g., was the answer marked REFUSED because of a lame delegation
or because the nameserver is still starting up and loading zones? Is
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