RE: [Hipsec] Re: Last Call: draft-ietf-hip-dns (Host Identity Protocol(HIP) Domain Name System (DNS) Extensions) to Experimental RFC

"Ahrenholz, Jeffrey M" <jeffrey.m.ahrenholz@boeing.com> Wed, 30 May 2007 17:59 UTC

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> My main issues are with expressing HIT in the wire format, 
> and a doubt 
> about whether an authoritative DNS servers must support Base{16,64} 
> algorithms and how to apply them to create wire-representation of HIP 
> RR zone data, i.e., can any authoritative DNS server implementation 
> _today_ support HIP RRs?
> 

We've implemented a previous version on this draft as a patch to ISC's
BIND 9.x implementation. I don't know whether or not authoritative DNS
servers are running BIND, but it does have functions such as
isc_hex_totext() and isc_base64_totext() for Base(16,64) conversions.
This doesn't seem very different than RFC4025 (IPSECKEY RR).

-Jeff

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