rfc1279.txt

著名的RFC文档,其中有一些文档是已经翻译成中文的的.

    <rr> [ ";" <comment> ]

Three examples of this (for domain C.ISI.EDU) might be:


500 A   10.1.0.52                        ; Basic address record
IN 600 MX  10 VENERA.ISI.EDU.                ; MX record
600 IN MX  10 VENERA.ISI.EDU.                ; MX record - other order

Note that:


 o  The class and TTL may be in either order (following RFC 1035)

 o  The class defaults to IN

 o  Domains must always be fully specified (i.e., master file
    abbreviate rules are not used).

 o  The TTL for a record must always be present (this saves looking at
    the parent entry to find the SOA record).

 o  Records (e.g., SOA) may be multiline.  Lines should be separated
    with the two IA5 characters <CR><LF>.

CNAME records are mapped symmetrically onto Directory Aliases.

This is now defined in terms of attribute and object class
definitions.  A single record type is defined, as opposed to one
attribute type per record type.  This allows the definition to not
require extension when new DNS Record types are define.  However,
there is some loss of efficiency if only a single record type is
needed, as filtering must be done by the DUA.
Similarly, no distinction is made on the basis of DNS class.  This
means that if there are two class hierarchies, that they must be
represented in a single DIT, and that information for different
classes must be separated by DUA filtering.


DNSDomain OBJECT-CLASS
    SUBCLASS OF Domain
    MAY CONTAIN -
        DNSRecord "


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DNSRecord ATTRIBUTE
    ATTRIBUTE-SYNTAX IA5String
    MATCHES FOR EQUALITY


Lookup of a domain is achieved by translating it algorithmically to a
Distinguished Name (DN), and reading back attributes desired.  This
information can be managed and searched in a straightforward fashion.

The information may also be downloaded into a DNS database.  This
should be done by use of zone transfer.  A tool to perform zone
transfer (in both directions) between a DNS Server and a DSA would
seem to be both straightforward and useful.  This would be a key tool
in a transition to X.500 based management of the DNS. It would also
allow a large part of the DNS namespace to be rapidly made available
in an X.500 pilot.
Inverse information can be derived by the usual IN-ADDR domain, which
will be represented in the same manner in the DIT.


8  NRS Information

Information associated with the UK NRS (Name Registration Scheme) can
be handled in a similar manner [Lar83].  This is being developed in a
separate document by Alan Turland.


9  Application Entity Titles

In many cases, Application entities will be closely related to
domains.  In some cases, it may be appropriate to give Application
Entities names which are related to the DNS part of the DIT. In this
case, the Domain Name will be used to identify the application, and
the entry for the domain will also be of object class Application
Process.  The children of this entry will identify Application
Entities, with names such as ``FTAM Service''.


10  Networks


It is clearly useful to represent networks within the DIT. A short
note on how to do this is given here.  It is likely that this
specification will later be evolved in a separate document.  This

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defines an Object Class for a general network, and shows how it can be
subclassed to define technology specific networks.

Network OBJECT-CLASS
    SUBCLASS OF TOP
    MAY CONTAIN -
      Manager,
      Locality,
      Description "

IPNetwork OBJECT-CLASS
    SUBCLASS OF Network
    MUST CONTAIN -AssociatedDomain"


The Network Object Class allows networks to be defined, and for useful
attributes to be associated with the entry.  A network will often
appear in more than one organisational structure, and this linkage
should be achieved by use of aliases.  This grouping can facilitate
management of networks.
The subclass IPNetwork mandates linkage into the DNS part of the DIT.
This will be represented in the DIT using the structures of RFC 1101
[Moc89].  Both of the domains which identify the network should be
represented in the Object Class.  For example, a network might have
the (user friendly) name:

 UCL-Ethernet, University College London, GB


This would have associated domains 0.0.40.128.IN-ADDR.ARPA and
UCL-ETHERNET.UCL.AC.UK. These would both have the analogous DIT
representations.  For example:

DomainComponent=0, DomainComponent=0, DomainComponent=40,
DomainComponent=128, DomainComponent=IN-ADDR, DomainComponent=ARPA


11  Linkage


There is a need to associate the organisational X.500 DIT and the DNS
tree.  The objects represented are different (Domain 6= Organisation;
Person 6= RFC 822 Mailbox).  Therefore aliasing is not an appropriate
linkage.  However, in many cases, there is a linkage which is rather

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stronger than that implied by the seeAlso attribute.  Therefore, we
define new attributes, which represent this stronger cross-linkage.
The same mechanism can be used to link a domains with an Application
Entity or an Application Process.
Links from the organisational X.500 DIT to the DNS tree are provided
by a new attribute, which could be present in Organisation or
Organisational Unit entries.


ObjectWithAssociatedDomain OBJECT-CLASS
  SUBCLASS OF top
  MUST CONTAIN -AssociatedDomain"

AssociatedDomain ATTRIBUTE
  WITH ATTRIBUTE-SYNTAX ia5StringSyntax

For example, the organisational entry:

    University College London, GB


would have an attribute:

    AssociatedDomain = UCL.AC.UK


Similarly, an RFC 822 mailbox attribute is used to link entries of
Person Object Class to their associated DNS entry.  This attribute is
defined in the Cosine and Internet Naming Architecture [BHK91].
Conversely, there are pointers from the DNS represented tree into the
organisational X.500 DIT:


AssociatedName ATTRIBUTE
  WITH ATTRIBUTE-SYNTAX distinguishedNameSyntax

This attribute is associated with the Domain object class.

This entry is used to provide linkage from the DNS X.500 Hierarchy
into the organisational X.500 hierarchy.  Where such entries do not
exist, attributes in the DNS entry (such as phone number) may be used.
It is recommended that information is not duplicated.  The preferred
setup is for the DNS attributes to be rather skeletal, with pointers
into the organisational X.500 DIT.

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For example, the domain UCL.AC.UK would be represented in the DIT as:

    DomainComponent=UCL, DomainComponent=AC,
    DomainComponent=UK


This entry would have in it an AssociatedName attribute with value:

    University College London, GB


This example shows a simple case with 1:1 linkage.  There are cases
where a domain might be associated with multiple organisations, or an
organisation with multiple domains.


12  Conclusions and proposals for evaluation

Experiments should be undertaken to determine the practicality and
utility of this scheme, in a pilot environment.  A possible approach
to this experimentation is described in Appendix A.
Object Identifiers have been assigned for this purpose in the Cosine
and Internet Naming Architecture [BHK91].


References

[BHK91]  P. Barker and S.E. Hardcastle-Kille. The COSINE and Internet
         X.500 schema. Request for Comments RFC 1274, Department of
         Computer Science, University College London, November 1991.

[CCI88]  The Directory --- overview of concepts, models and services,
         December 1988. CCITT X.500 Series Recommendations.

[Cro82]  D.H. Crocker. Standard of the format of ARPA internet text
         messages. Request for Comments 822, University of Delaware,
         August 1982.

[HK91]   S.E. Hardcastle-Kille. Using the OSI directory to achieve
         user friendly naming. Request for Comments in preparation,
         Department of Computer Science, University College London,
         November 1991.



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[Lar83]  J. Larmouth. JNT name registration technical guide, April
         1983.

[Lin89]  J. Linn. Privacy Enhancement for Internet Electronic Mail:
         Part 1 --- Message Encipherment and Authentication
         Procedures. Request for Comments 1113, Bolt, Beranek, and
         Newman, August 1989.

[Moc87a] P. Mockapetris. Domain names - concepts and facilities.
         Request for Comments RFC 1034, USC/Information Sciences
         Institute, November 1987.

[Moc87b] P. Mockapetris. Domain names - implementation and
         specification. Request for Comments RFC 1035,
         USC/Information Sciences Institute, November 1987.

[Moc89]  P. Mockapetris. DNS encoding of network names and other
         types. Request for Comments RFC 1101, USC/Information
         Sciences Institute, April 1989.


13  Security Considerations

This memo does not directly address security issues.  However, due to
the facilities of X.500, this proposal could lead to a more secure way
to access and manage domain information.


14  Author's Address

    Steve Hardcastle-Kille
    Department of Computer Science
    University College London
    Gower Street
    WC1E 6BT
    England

    Phone:  [phone]


    EMail:  [e-mail]




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A  Possible Deployment Approach

This appendix notes a possible approach to deploying an experiment to
evaluate this mechanism.  The following components of a possible
experiment are noted.


1.  User tool.  This will take a domain or mailbox as input.  This
    will be looked up in the DIT. This tool should be capable of:

     o  Attempting to correct user input

     o  Helping browsing

     o  Looking up information associated with the domain (or mailbox)
        and associated name, in particular the manager (of both domain
        and associated name) and information on the manager (e.g.,
        phone number and mailbox).

     o  Supply DNS records

     o  Handle IN-ADDR.ARPA inverse lookups if supplied with an IP
        Address

     o  Look up networks

2.  A procedural library to allow user interfaces to make easy use of
    these facilities.

3.  Zone transfer tool.  This will use the zone transfer protocol to
    transfer information between a DSA and Domain Nameserver.  When
    writing to the DSA, attributes in an entry which are not DNS
    records should remain untouched.

4.  Linkage patching tool.  When the organisational DIT is
    established, associated domain pointers are usually inserted.  A
    tool can be written to search the DIT and insert the reverse
    pointers.

5.  DNS Manager Tool.  This will allow user addition of additional
    information into the DNS part of the DIT. A standard DUA can
    probably be used for this.



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6.  Mailbox download tool.  This will allow download of local
    mailboxes, with pointers to the user entries.

7.  Emulation DNS Server, using the Directory as a database.  The
    server should maintain a permanent connection to its local DSA. As
    there is no OSI bind, the response of this server can be at least
    as fast as a normal DNS server.  There can be two variants of this
    server.

   (a)  Using a local DSA as a local database but using DNS
        distributed operations.

   (b)  Do all lookups in the directory (using Directory Distributed
        Operations).

An initial experiment is straightforward.  The Zone Transfer Tool (3)
can be used to download a large part of the DNS space into a single
DSA (there will be some restrictions, as parts of the DNS hierarchy do
not permit zone transfer).  This can be used repeatedly to maintain
the information.  The linkage patching tool (4) can be used to put in
pointers to parts of the DIT. The user tool can then be used (by all
sites participation the the directory pilot) to look up domain
information.  This will allow the utility of the approach to be
evaluated.  The manager tool (5) will allow extra information to be
added to parts of the DNS tree.

The next stage will be to distribute the DNS part of the DIT over
multiple DSAs using Directory distribution techniques.
The emulation DNS Server (7) will be useful to ensure that equivalent
functionality is being offered by the Directory.  It can also be used
to examine performance differences.
A final step is to master some parts of the DNS hierarchy in the DIT.
Because of the zone transfer technique, this will be entirely
transparent to the DNS user.  Management benefits can then be
examined.










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