Internet DRAFT - draft-ietf-dnsop-rrserial

draft-ietf-dnsop-rrserial







Internet Engineering Task Force                               H. Salgado
Internet-Draft                                                 NIC Chile
Intended status: Informational                         M. Vergara Ereche
Expires: 8 October 2022                                            ICANN
                                                            6 April 2022


      The "RRSERIAL" EDNS option for the SOA serial of a RR's zone
                      draft-ietf-dnsop-rrserial-01

Abstract

   The "RRSERIAL" EDNS option allows a DNS querier to request a DNS
   authoritative server to add an EDNS option in the answer of such
   query with the SOA serial number field of the origin zone which
   contains the answered Resource Record.

   This "RRSERIAL" data allows to debug and diagnose problems by helping
   to recognize the data source of an answer in an atomic single query,
   by associating the response with a respective zone version.

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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   2
     1.1.  Requirements Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
   2.  The RRSERIAL Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
   3.  RRSERIAL Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
     3.1.  Initiator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
     3.2.  Responder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
   4.  Example usage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
   5.  Acknowledgements  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
   6.  IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
     6.1.  DNS EDNS0 Option Code Registration  . . . . . . . . . . .   4
   7.  Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
   8.  Normative References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
   9.  Informative References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
   Appendix A.  Implementation References  . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
   Authors' Addresses  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6

1.  Introduction

   The "RRSERIAL" EDNS option [RFC6891] allows a DNS querier to request
   to a DNS authoritative server to add an EDNS option in the answer of
   such query with the SOA serial number field of the zone associated to
   the answered Resource Record.

   This "RRSERIAL" data allows to help debug by recognizing the data
   source of an answer, associating this answer with a respective zone
   version.

   DNS data is of loose coherent nature, meaning that a record obtained
   by a response could be out-of-sync with other authoritative sources
   of the same data.  This makes it difficult to debug responses,
   because you'd need to couple an answer with the same version of the
   zone used to obtain such data.  Even when you could use a separate
   query to ask for the SOA RR of the zone and therefore know its SOA
   serial, such separate query is performed in a different time and
   could arrive from another authoritative source (for example, in the
   case the server is anycasted as described in Section 4.9 of
   [RFC4786]), so it's not directly correlated with the original query.

   This EDNS option is aimed to be used only on authoritative servers
   for a zone.  It's intended for hop-to-hop communication (not
   transitive).  Resolver and forwarder behavior is undefined.




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   The RRSERIAL EDNS extension doesn't offer much relevance for zones
   served by an Authoritative server that don't use the SOA serial
   versioning as a meaning to its content.  There are cases where
   nameservers use different backends for its data sources, like
   relational databases or by using a different off-DNS synchronicity.
   In such cases this extension has no benefit or utility to use in
   debugging or analysis of a response.

1.1.  Requirements Language

   The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
   "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
   document are to be interpreted as described in [RFC2119].

2.  The RRSERIAL Option

   The OPTION-CODE for the RRSERIAL option is <TBD>.

   The OPTION-DATA for the RRSERIAL option is an unsigned 32 bit version
   number as defined in the SERIAL field of the "SOA RDATA Format" in
   Section 3.3.13 of [RFC1035].

   The OPTION-LENGTH for the RRSERIAL option MUST have a value of 0 for
   queries, and MUST have a value of 4 for responses.

3.  RRSERIAL Processing

3.1.  Initiator

   The EDNS RRSERIAL option MAY be included on any QUERY, by adding a
   zero-length EDNS RRSERIAL option to the options field of the OPT
   record when the query is made.

3.2.  Responder

   If an EDNS RRSERIAL option is sent to a server that is Authoritative
   for the zone queried, and the RCODE for the answer is NOERROR, a name
   server that understands the RRSERIAL option and chooses to honor a
   particular RRSERIAL request, MUST put in the OPTION-DATA a copy of
   the serial field from the SOA Resource Record of the zone which
   contains the original QNAME of the reply (as per Section 4 of
   [RFC8499]).

   In the case of a SERVFAIL RCODE the responder MAY include the
   RRSERIAL EDNS option if the QNAME still belongs to an authoritative
   zone of the server, in which case that serial MUST be the one
   included in the answer.




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   Otherwise, the answer MUST NOT add an EDNS RRSERIAL option to the
   response.

   Note that a NODATA response code as defined in Section 3 of [RFC8499]
   MUST also include the RRSERIAL answer as declared before even when
   there's no ANSWER data for the QNAME, as the RCODE corresponds to
   NOERROR.

4.  Example usage

     $ dig @ns.example.com www.example.com AAAA +rrserial +norec +nocmd

     ; (1 server found)
     ;; global options: +cmd
     ;; Got answer:
     ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 16429
     ;; flags: qr aa; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

     ;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
     ; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4096
     ; RRSERIAL: 2019073001
     ;; QUESTION SECTION:
     ;www.example.com.                    IN      AAAA

     ;; ANSWER SECTION:
     www.example.com.             900     IN      AAAA

     ;; Query time: 53 msec
     ;; SERVER: ns.example.com#53(2001:DB8::53)
     ;; WHEN: Tue Aug 07 16:54:05 -04 2018
     ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 71


                                  Figure 1

5.  Acknowledgements

   The authors thanks all the comments and support made in the DNSOPS
   mailing list, chats and discussions.

6.  IANA Considerations

6.1.  DNS EDNS0 Option Code Registration

   Request to IANA for a code point registration for "RRSERIAL" option.






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7.  Security Considerations

   The EDNS extension data it's not covered by RRSIG records, so there's
   no way to verify its authenticity nor integrity using DNSSEC and
   could theoricatelly be tampered by a person-in-the-middle if the
   transport is made by unsecure means.  Caution should be taken to use
   the EDNS RRSERIAL data for any means besides troubleshooting and
   debugging.  If there's a need to certify the RRSERIAL trustwortiness,
   it will be necessary to use an encrypted and authenticated DNS
   transport.  If there's a need to authenticate data origin for the
   RRSERIAL value, it should be compared to a separate regular SOA query
   with DO flag, whose answer shall be DNSSEC signed, with the cautions
   about Anycast and others as already stated in Introduction.

   There's no risk on disclosure of private information, as the SERIAL
   of the SOA record is already publicly available.

8.  Normative References

   [RFC1035]  Mockapetris, P., "Domain names - implementation and
              specification", STD 13, RFC 1035, DOI 10.17487/RFC1035,
              November 1987, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc1035>.

   [RFC2119]  Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
              Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC2119, March 1997,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc2119>.

   [RFC6891]  Damas, J., Graff, M., and P. Vixie, "Extension Mechanisms
              for DNS (EDNS(0))", STD 75, RFC 6891,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC6891, April 2013,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6891>.

9.  Informative References

   [RFC4786]  Abley, J. and K. Lindqvist, "Operation of Anycast
              Services", BCP 126, RFC 4786, DOI 10.17487/RFC4786,
              December 2006, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4786>.

   [RFC8499]  Hoffman, P., Sullivan, A., and K. Fujiwara, "DNS
              Terminology", BCP 219, RFC 8499, DOI 10.17487/RFC8499,
              January 2019, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8499>.









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Appendix A.  Implementation References

   There's a patched NSD server 4.1.23 with support for RRSERIAL with
   the experimental opcode 65024 maintained in
   https://github.com/huguei/nsd/tree/rrserial , and installed for live
   testing in 200.1.122.30 address with configured zones
   dateserial.example.com. and incserial.example.com.; with MX, TXT and
   AAAA apex records.

Authors' Addresses

   Hugo Salgado
   NIC Chile
   Miraflores 222, piso 14
   CP 8320198 Santiago
   Chile
   Phone: +56 2 29407700
   Email: hsalgado@nic.cl


   Mauricio Vergara Ereche
   ICANN
   Email: mauricio.vergara@icann.org




























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