Re: [DNSOP] RFC7720 and AXFR

Mukund Sivaraman <muks@mukund.org> Sun, 28 October 2018 13:13 UTC

Return-Path: <muks@mukund.org>
X-Original-To: dnsop@ietfa.amsl.com
Delivered-To: dnsop@ietfa.amsl.com
Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ietfa.amsl.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2598012F18C for <dnsop@ietfa.amsl.com>; Sun, 28 Oct 2018 06:13:27 -0700 (PDT)
X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at amsl.com
X-Spam-Flag: NO
X-Spam-Score: -1.901
X-Spam-Level:
X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.901 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[BAYES_00=-1.9, SPF_PASS=-0.001] autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no
Received: from mail.ietf.org ([4.31.198.44]) by localhost (ietfa.amsl.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id lW_vXfmgYCiv for <dnsop@ietfa.amsl.com>; Sun, 28 Oct 2018 06:13:25 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from mail.banu.com (mail.banu.com [IPv6:2a01:4f8:140:644b::225]) by ietfa.amsl.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC29C128CE4 for <dnsop@ietf.org>; Sun, 28 Oct 2018 06:13:24 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from jurassic (unknown [27.5.202.211]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.banu.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 2602832C08EE; Sun, 28 Oct 2018 13:13:21 +0000 (UTC)
Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2018 18:43:18 +0530
From: Mukund Sivaraman <muks@mukund.org>
To: "A. Schulze" <sca@andreasschulze.de>
Cc: dnsop <dnsop@ietf.org>
Message-ID: <20181028131318.GA13489@jurassic>
References: <2c00abd8-1c0d-cfee-5a5f-764a90f3f38c@andreasschulze.de>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Content-Disposition: inline
In-Reply-To: <2c00abd8-1c0d-cfee-5a5f-764a90f3f38c@andreasschulze.de>
User-Agent: Mutt/1.9.2 (2017-12-15)
Archived-At: <https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/dnsop/FPDhOsNf8F-PYxttp-DR9qYV8Mo>
Subject: Re: [DNSOP] RFC7720 and AXFR
X-BeenThere: dnsop@ietf.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29
Precedence: list
List-Id: IETF DNSOP WG mailing list <dnsop.ietf.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <https://www.ietf.org/mailman/options/dnsop>, <mailto:dnsop-request@ietf.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/browse/dnsop/>
List-Post: <mailto:dnsop@ietf.org>
List-Help: <mailto:dnsop-request@ietf.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop>, <mailto:dnsop-request@ietf.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2018 13:13:27 -0000

On Sun, Oct 28, 2018 at 01:32:51PM +0100, A. Schulze wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> RFC 2870 (Root Name Server Operational Requirements) say
> 
> 	2.7 Root servers SHOULD NOT answer AXFR, or other zone transfer,
>             queries from clients other than other root servers.
> 
> The update, RFC 7720 (DNS Root Name Service Protocol and Deployment Requirements)
> don't even mention AXFR at all.
> All I found is https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7720#section-2
> 
> 	o MUST implement core DNS [RFC1035] and clarifications to the DNS [RFC2181].
> 
> Is AXFR a strict requirement for root-servers today?

There's no requirement for AXFR and some root letters don't serve
AXFR. E.g., L and M don't whereas F does.

		Mukund