Protocol Action: Clarifications to the DNS Specification to Proposed Standard

The IESG <iesg-secretary@ietf.org> Thu, 17 July 1997 16:49 UTC

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Subject: Protocol Action: Clarifications to the DNS Specification to Proposed Standard
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 12:47:32 -0400
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  The IESG has approved the Internet-Draft "Clarifications to the DNS
  Specification" <draft-ietf-dnsind-clarify-08.txt> as a Proposed
  Standard.  This document is the product of the DNS IXFR,
  Notification, and Dynamic Update Working Group. The IESG contact
  persons are Jeffrey Burgan and Thomas Narten.

Technical Summary

  This document addresses some problem areas which have been identified
  with the current Domain Name System (DNS) specification and proposes
  solutions for the issues identified. Several issues are considered; IP
  packet header address usage from multi-homed servers and TTLs in sets
  of records with the same name, class, and type. The first issue deals
  with which source address a multi-homed DNS server should use when
  replying to a query. The second deals with the issue of differing TTLs
  for DNS records with the same label, class and type. The third is the
  issue of canonical names, what they are, how CNAME records relate,
  what names are legal in what parts of the DNS, and what is the valid
  syntax of a DNS name.


Working Group Summary

  The Working Group last call produced no significant issues with this
  document.

Protocol Quality

  This document has been reviewed by Jeffrey Burgan and Thomas Narten

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