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Network Working Group R. AusteinRequest for Comments: 1611 Epilogue Technology CorporationCategory: Standards Track J. Saperia Digital Equipment Corporation May 1994 DNS Server MIB ExtensionsStatus of this Memo This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state and status of this protocol. Distribution of this memo is unlimited.Table of Contents 1. Introduction .............................................. 1 2. The SNMPv2 Network Management Framework ................... 2 2.1 Object Definitions ....................................... 2 3. Overview .................................................. 2 3.1 Resolvers ................................................ 3 3.2 Name Servers ............................................. 3 3.3 Selected Objects ......................................... 4 3.4 Textual Conventions ...................................... 4 4. Definitions ............................................... 5 5. Acknowledgements .......................................... 28 6. References ................................................ 28 7. Security Considerations ................................... 29 8. Authors' Addresses ........................................ 301. Introduction This memo defines a portion of the Management Information Base (MIB) for use with network management protocols in the Internet community. In particular, it describes a set of extensions which instrument DNS name server functions. This memo was produced by the DNS working group. With the adoption of the Internet-standard Network Management Framework [4,5,6,7], and with a large number of vendor implementations of these standards in commercially available products, it became possible to provide a higher level of effective network management in TCP/IP-based internets than was previously available. With the growth in the use of these standards, it has become possible to consider the management of other elements of the infrastructure beyond the basic TCP/IP protocols. A key element ofAustein & Saperia [Page 1]RFC 1611 DNS Server MIB Extensions May 1994 the TCP/IP infrastructure is the DNS. Up to this point there has been no mechanism to integrate the management of the DNS with SNMP-based managers. This memo provides the mechanisms by which IP-based management stations can effectively manage DNS name server software in an integrated fashion. We have defined DNS MIB objects to be used in conjunction with the Internet MIB to allow access to and control of DNS name server software via SNMP by the Internet community.2. The SNMPv2 Network Management Framework The SNMPv2 Network Management Framework consists of four major components. They are: o RFC 1442 which defines the SMI, the mechanisms used for describing and naming objects for the purpose of management. o STD 17, RFC 1213 defines MIB-II, the core set of managed objects for the Internet suite of protocols. o RFC 1445 which defines the administrative and other architectural aspects of the framework. o RFC 1448 which defines the protocol used for network access to managed objects. The Framework permits new objects to be defined for the purpose of experimentation and evaluation.2.1. Object Definitions Managed objects are accessed via a virtual information store, termed the Management Information Base or MIB. Objects in the MIB are defined using the subset of Abstract Syntax Notation One (ASN.1) defined in the SMI. In particular, each object object type is named by an OBJECT IDENTIFIER, an administratively assigned name. The object type together with an object instance serves to uniquely identify a specific instantiation of the object. For human convenience, we often use a textual string, termed the descriptor, to refer to the object type.3. Overview In theory, the DNS world is pretty simple. There are two kinds of entities: resolvers and name servers. Resolvers ask questions. Name servers answer them. The real world, however, is not so simple.Austein & Saperia [Page 2]RFC 1611 DNS Server MIB Extensions May 1994 Implementors have made widely differing choices about how to divide DNS functions between resolvers and servers. They have also constructed various sorts of exotic hybrids. The most difficult task in defining this MIB was to accommodate this wide range of entities without having to come up with a separate MIB for each. We divided up the various DNS functions into two, non-overlapping classes, called "resolver functions" and "name server functions." A DNS entity that performs what we define as resolver functions contains a resolver, and therefore must implement the MIB groups required of all resolvers which are defined in a separate MIB Module. A DNS entity which implements name server functions is considered to be a name server, and must implement the MIB groups required for name servers in this module. If the same piece of software performs both resolver and server functions, we imagine that it contains both a resolver and a server and would thus implement both the DNS Server and DNS Resolver MIBs.3.1. Resolvers In our model, a resolver is a program (or piece thereof) which obtains resource records from servers. Normally it does so at the behest of an application, but may also do so as part of its own operation. A resolver sends DNS protocol queries and receives DNS protocol replies. A resolver neither receives queries nor sends replies. A full service resolver is one that knows how to resolve queries: it obtains the needed resource records by contacting a server authoritative for the records desired. A stub resolver does not know how to resolve queries: it sends all queries to a local name server, setting the "recursion desired" flag to indicate that it hopes that the name server will be willing to resolve the query. A resolver may (optionally) have a cache for remembering previously acquired resource records. It may also have a negative cache for remembering names or data that have been determined not to exist.3.2. Name Servers A name server is a program (or piece thereof) that provides resource records to resolvers. All references in this document to "a name server" imply "the name server's role"; in some cases the name server's role and the resolver's role might be combined into a single program. A name server receives DNS protocol queries and sends DNS protocol replies. A name server neither sends queries nor receives replies. As a consequence, name servers do not have caches. Normally, a name server would expect to receive only those queries to which it could respond with authoritative information. However, if a name server receives a query that it cannot respond to with purely authoritative information, it may choose to try to obtain theAustein & Saperia [Page 3]RFC 1611 DNS Server MIB Extensions May 1994 necessary additional information from a resolver which may or may not be a separate process.3.3. Selected Objects Many of the objects included in this memo have been created from information contained in the DNS specifications [1,2], as amended and clarified by subsequent host requirements documents [3]. Other objects have been created based on experience with existing DNS management tools, expected operational needs, the statistics generated by existing DNS implementations, and the configuration files used by existing DNS implementations. These objects have been ordered into groups as follows: o Server Configuration Group o Server Counter Group o Server Optional Counter Group o Server Zone Group This information has been converted into a standard form using the SNMPv2 SMI defined in [9]. For the most part, the descriptions are influenced by the DNS related RFCs noted above. For example, the descriptions for counters used for the various types of queries of DNS records are influenced by the definitions used for the various record types found in [2].3.4. Textual Conventions Several conceptual data types have been introduced as a textual conventions in this DNS MIB document. These additions will facilitate the common understanding of information used by the DNS. No changes to the SMI or the SNMP are necessary to support these conventions. Readers familiar with MIBs designed to manage entities in the lower layers of the Internet protocol suite may be surprised at the number of non-enumerated integers used in this MIB to represent values such as DNS RR class and type numbers. The reason for this choice is simple: the DNS itself is designed as an extensible protocol, allowing new classes and types of resource records to be added to the protocol without recoding the core DNS software. Using non- enumerated integers to represent these data types in this MIB allows the MIB to accommodate these changes as well.Austein & Saperia [Page 4]RFC 1611 DNS Server MIB Extensions May 19944. Definitions DNS-SERVER-MIB DEFINITIONS ::= BEGIN IMPORTS mib-2 FROM RFC-1213 MODULE-IDENTITY, OBJECT-TYPE, OBJECT-IDENTITY, IpAddress, Counter32, Gauge32 FROM SNMPv2-SMI TEXTUAL-CONVENTION, RowStatus, DisplayString, TruthValue FROM SNMPv2-TC MODULE-COMPLIANCE, OBJECT-GROUP FROM SNMPv2-CONF; dns OBJECT-IDENTITY STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The OID assigned to DNS MIB work by the IANA." ::= { mib-2 32 } dnsServMIB MODULE-IDENTITY LAST-UPDATED "9401282251Z" ORGANIZATION "IETF DNS Working Group" CONTACT-INFO " Rob Austein Postal: Epilogue Technology Corporation 268 Main Street, Suite 283 North Reading, MA 10864 US Tel: +1 617 245 0804 Fax: +1 617 245 8122 E-Mail: sra@epilogue.com Jon Saperia Postal: Digital Equipment Corporation 110 Spit Brook Road ZKO1-3/H18 Nashua, NH 03062-2698 US Tel: +1 603 881 0480 Fax: +1 603 881 0120 Email: saperia@zko.dec.com" DESCRIPTION "The MIB module for entities implementing the server side of the Domain Name System (DNS) protocol." ::= { dns 1 }Austein & Saperia [Page 5]RFC 1611 DNS Server MIB Extensions May 1994 dnsServMIBObjects OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { dnsServMIB 1 } -- (Old-style) groups in the DNS server MIB. dnsServConfig OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { dnsServMIBObjects 1 } dnsServCounter OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { dnsServMIBObjects 2 } dnsServOptCounter OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { dnsServMIBObjects 3 } dnsServZone OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { dnsServMIBObjects 4 } -- Textual conventions DnsName ::= TEXTUAL-CONVENTION -- A DISPLAY-HINT would be nice, but difficult to express. STATUS current DESCRIPTION "A DNS name is a sequence of labels. When DNS names are displayed, the boundaries between labels are typically indicated by dots (e.g. `Acme' and `COM' are labels in the name `Acme.COM'). In the DNS protocol, however, no such separators are needed because each label is encoded as a length octet followed by the indicated number of octets of label. For example, `Acme.COM' is encoded as the octet sequence { 4, 'A', 'c', 'm', 'e', 3, 'C', 'O', 'M', 0 } (the final 0 is the length of the name of the root domain, which appears implicitly at the end of any DNS name). This MIB uses the same encoding as the DNS protocol. A DnsName must always be a fully qualified name. It is an error to encode a relative domain name as a DnsName without first making it a fully qualified name." REFERENCE "RFC-1034 section 3.1." SYNTAX OCTET STRING (SIZE (0..255)) DnsNameAsIndex ::= TEXTUAL-CONVENTION STATUS current DESCRIPTION "This textual convention is like a DnsName, but is used as an index componant in tables. Alphabetic characters in names of this type are restricted to uppercase: the characters 'a' through 'z' are mapped to the characters 'A' through 'Z'. This restriction is intended to make the lexical ordering imposed by SNMP useful when applied to DNS names. Note that it is theoretically possible for a valid DNSAustein & Saperia [Page 6]RFC 1611 DNS Server MIB Extensions May 1994 name to exceed the allowed length of an SNMP object identifer, and thus be impossible to represent in tables in this MIB that are indexed by DNS name. Sampling of DNS names in current use on the Internet suggests that this limit does not pose a serious problem in practice." REFERENCE "RFC-1034 section 3.1, RFC-1448 section 4.1." SYNTAX DnsName DnsClass ::= TEXTUAL-CONVENTION DISPLAY-HINT "2d" STATUS current DESCRIPTION "This data type is used to represent the class values which appear in Resource Records in the DNS. A 16-bit unsigned integer is used to allow room for new classes of records to be defined. Existing standard classes are listed in the DNS specifications." REFERENCE "RFC-1035 section 3.2.4." SYNTAX INTEGER (0..65535) DnsType ::= TEXTUAL-CONVENTION DISPLAY-HINT "2d" STATUS current DESCRIPTION "This data type is used to represent the type values which appear in Resource Records in the DNS. A 16-bit unsigned integer is used to allow room for new record types to be defined. Existing standard types are listed in the DNS specifications." REFERENCE "RFC-1035 section 3.2.2." SYNTAX INTEGER (0..65535) DnsQClass ::= TEXTUAL-CONVENTION DISPLAY-HINT "2d" STATUS current DESCRIPTION "This data type is used to represent the QClass values which appear in Resource Records in the DNS. A 16-bit unsigned integer is used to allow room for new QClass records to be defined. Existing standard QClasses are listed in the DNS specification." REFERENCE "RFC-1035 section 3.2.5." SYNTAX INTEGER (0..65535)Austein & Saperia [Page 7]RFC 1611 DNS Server MIB Extensions May 1994 DnsQType ::= TEXTUAL-CONVENTION DISPLAY-HINT "2d" STATUS current DESCRIPTION "This data type is used to represent the QType values which appear in Resource Records in the DNS. A 16-bit unsigned integer is used to allow room for new QType records to be defined. Existing standard QTypes are listed in the DNS specification." REFERENCE "RFC-1035 section 3.2.3." SYNTAX INTEGER (0..65535) DnsTime ::= TEXTUAL-CONVENTION DISPLAY-HINT "4d" STATUS current DESCRIPTION "DnsTime values are 32-bit unsigned integers which measure time in seconds." REFERENCE "RFC-1035." SYNTAX Gauge32
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