Re: [DNSOP] Fwd: New Version Notification for draft-pusateri-dnsop-update-timeout-01.txt

Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org> Tue, 19 February 2019 22:36 UTC

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Subject: Re: [DNSOP] Fwd: New Version Notification for draft-pusateri-dnsop-update-timeout-01.txt
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Think disaster recovery and promoting a slave to master.  You have to
transfer state between servers.  You can transfer it in band or out of
band.  If you transfer it out of band you need to invent / specify
yet-another-protocol to do it on top of specifying when records need to
be removed.

Mark

> On 20 Feb 2019, at 9:26 am, Paul Wouters <paul@nohats.ca> wrote:
> 
> 
> I have read the document.
> 
> I have a question about:
> 
>   A zone administrator may
>   want to enforce a default lifetime for dynamic updates (such as the
>   DHCP lease lifetime) or the DNS Update may contain a lifetime using
>   an EDNS(0) Update Lease option [I-D.sekar-dns-ul].
> 
> This seems a local policy and local implementation issue only.
> 
>  However, this
>  lease lifetime is not communicated to secondary servers and will not
>  endure through server software restarts.
> 
> Why does the secondary server need to know the lease lifetime? Only the
> primary needs to know this because it will need to purge the records and
> update the appropriate DNSSEC entries, something the secondary cannot do
> anyway? In fact, Section 8 agrees with me:
> 
>   A secondary server MUST NOT expire the records in a zone it maintains
>   covered by the TIMEOUT resource record and it MUST NOT expire the
>   TIMEOUT resource record itself when the last record it covers has
>   expired.  The secondary server MUST always wait for the records to be
>   removed or updated by the primary server.
> 
> So why is the TIMEOUT record needed? If the secondary argument is
> gone, the only argument left from the Introduction is server software
> restart. Which seems to me to be an application issue and not a protocol
> issue?
> 
> As others pointed out, introducing SHA3 into the DNS right now is not
> appropriate.
> 
> I see a use for clients telling the dns update server what the maximum
> possibly lifetime can be, so it can go and perform a delete request on
> behalf of vanished clients. But again I don't see this as a protocol
> issue needing a TIMEOUT RRTYPE ?
> 
> Did I miss anything?
> 
> Paul
> 
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