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60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein<div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title">
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein<a name="Bv9ARM.ch09"></a>Appendix�A.�Appendices</h2></div></div></div>
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein<dt><span class="sect1"><a href="Bv9ARM.ch09.html#id2559648">Acknowledgments</a></span></dt>
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein<dd><dl><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="Bv9ARM.ch09.html#id2559653">A Brief History of the <span class="acronym">DNS</span> and <span class="acronym">BIND</span></a></span></dt></dl></dd>
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein<dt><span class="sect1"><a href="Bv9ARM.ch09.html#historical_dns_information">General <span class="acronym">DNS</span> Reference Information</a></span></dt>
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein<dd><dl><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="Bv9ARM.ch09.html#ipv6addresses">IPv6 addresses (AAAA)</a></span></dt></dl></dd>
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein<dt><span class="sect1"><a href="Bv9ARM.ch09.html#bibliography">Bibliography (and Suggested Reading)</a></span></dt>
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein<dt><span class="sect2"><a href="Bv9ARM.ch09.html#rfcs">Request for Comments (RFCs)</a></span></dt>
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein<dt><span class="sect2"><a href="Bv9ARM.ch09.html#internet_drafts">Internet Drafts</a></span></dt>
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein<dt><span class="sect2"><a href="Bv9ARM.ch09.html#id2562071">Other Documents About <span class="acronym">BIND</span></a></span></dt>
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein<div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both">
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein<a name="id2559648"></a>Acknowledgments</h2></div></div></div>
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein<div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title">
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein<a name="id2559653"></a>A Brief History of the <span class="acronym">DNS</span> and <span class="acronym">BIND</span></h3></div></div></div>
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein Although the "official" beginning of the Domain Name
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein System occurred in 1984 with the publication of RFC 920, the
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein core of the new system was described in 1983 in RFCs 882 and
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein 883. From 1984 to 1987, the ARPAnet (the precursor to today's
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein Internet) became a testbed of experimentation for developing the
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein new naming/addressing scheme in an rapidly expanding,
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein operational network environment. New RFCs were written and
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein published in 1987 that modified the original documents to
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein incorporate improvements based on the working model. RFC 1034,
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein "Domain Names-Concepts and Facilities", and RFC 1035, "Domain
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein Names-Implementation and Specification" were published and
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein became the standards upon which all <span class="acronym">DNS</span> implementations are
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein The first working domain name server, called "Jeeves", was
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein written in 1983-84 by Paul Mockapetris for operation on DEC
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein machines located at the University of Southern California's
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein Sciences Institute (USC-ISI) and SRI International's Network
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein Center (SRI-NIC). A <span class="acronym">DNS</span> server for
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein Unix machines, the Berkeley Internet
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein Name Domain (<span class="acronym">BIND</span>) package, was
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein written soon after by a group of
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein graduate students at the University of California at Berkeley
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein a grant from the US Defense Advanced Research Projects
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein Administration
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein (DARPA). Versions of <span class="acronym">BIND</span> through
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein 4.8.3 were maintained by the Computer
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein Systems Research Group (CSRG) at UC Berkeley. Douglas Terry, Mark
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein Painter, David Riggle and Songnian Zhou made up the initial <span class="acronym">BIND</span>
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein project team. After that, additional work on the software package
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein was done by Ralph Campbell. Kevin Dunlap, a Digital Equipment
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein employee on loan to the CSRG, worked on <span class="acronym">BIND</span> for 2 years, from 1985
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein to 1987. Many other people also contributed to <span class="acronym">BIND</span> development
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein during that time: Doug Kingston, Craig Partridge, Smoot
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein Carl-Mitchell,
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein Mike Muuss, Jim Bloom and Mike Schwartz. <span class="acronym">BIND</span> maintenance was subsequently
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein handled by Mike Karels and O. Kure.
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein <span class="acronym">BIND</span> versions 4.9 and 4.9.1 were
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein released by Digital Equipment
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein Corporation (now Compaq Computer Corporation). Paul Vixie, then
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein a DEC employee, became <span class="acronym">BIND</span>'s
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein primary caretaker. Paul was assisted
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein by Phil Almquist, Robert Elz, Alan Barrett, Paul Albitz, Bryan
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein Beecher, Andrew
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein Partan, Andy Cherenson, Tom Limoncelli, Berthold Paffrath, Fuat
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein Baran, Anant Kumar, Art Harkin, Win Treese, Don Lewis, Christophe
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein Wolfhugel, and others.
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein <span class="acronym">BIND</span> Version 4.9.2 was sponsored by
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein Vixie Enterprises. Paul
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein Vixie became <span class="acronym">BIND</span>'s principal
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein <span class="acronym">BIND</span> versions from 4.9.3 onward
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein have been developed and maintained
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein by the Internet Software Consortium with support being provided
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein by ISC's sponsors. As co-architects/programmers, Bob Halley and
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein Paul Vixie released the first production-ready version of <span class="acronym">BIND</span> version
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein 8 in May 1997.
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein <span class="acronym">BIND</span> development work is made
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein possible today by the sponsorship
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein of several corporations, and by the tireless work efforts of
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein individuals.
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein<div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both">
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein<a name="historical_dns_information"></a>General <span class="acronym">DNS</span> Reference Information</h2></div></div></div>
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein<div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title">
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein<a name="ipv6addresses"></a>IPv6 addresses (AAAA)</h3></div></div></div>
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein IPv6 addresses are 128-bit identifiers for interfaces and
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein sets of interfaces which were introduced in the <span class="acronym">DNS</span> to facilitate
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein scalable Internet routing. There are three types of addresses: <span class="emphasis"><em>Unicast</em></span>,
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein an identifier for a single interface;
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein an identifier for a set of interfaces; and <span class="emphasis"><em>Multicast</em></span>,
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein an identifier for a set of interfaces. Here we describe the global
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein Unicast address scheme. For more information, see RFC 2374.
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein The aggregatable global Unicast address format is as follows:
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein Interface ID
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein <------ Public Topology
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein <-Site Topology->
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein <------ Interface Identifier ------>
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein Format Prefix (001)
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein Top-Level Aggregation Identifier
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein Reserved for future use
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein Next-Level Aggregation Identifier
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein Site-Level Aggregation Identifier
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein INTERFACE ID
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein Interface Identifier
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein The <span class="emphasis"><em>Public Topology</em></span> is provided by the
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein upstream provider or ISP, and (roughly) corresponds to the
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein <span class="emphasis"><em>network</em></span> section
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein of the address range. The <span class="emphasis"><em>Site Topology</em></span> is
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein where you can subnet this space, much the same as subnetting an
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein IPv4 /16 network into /24 subnets.
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein The <span class="emphasis"><em>Interface Identifier</em></span> is
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein the address of an individual interface on a given network. (With
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein IPv6, addresses belong to interfaces rather than machines.)
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein The subnetting capability of IPv6 is much more flexible than
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein that of IPv4: subnetting can now be carried out on bit boundaries,
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein in much the same way as Classless InterDomain Routing (CIDR).
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein The Interface Identifier must be unique on that network. On
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein ethernet networks, one way to ensure this is to set the address
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein to the first three bytes of the hardware address, "FFFE", then the
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein last three bytes of the hardware address. The lowest significant
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein bit of the first byte should then be complemented. Addresses are
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein written as 32-bit blocks separated with a colon, and leading zeros
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein of a block may be omitted, for example:
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein<p><span><strong class="command">2001:db8:201:9:a00:20ff:fe81:2b32</strong></span></p>
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein IPv6 address specifications are likely to contain long strings
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein of zeros, so the architects have included a shorthand for
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein them. The double colon (`::') indicates the longest possible
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein of zeros that can fit, and can be used only once in an address.
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein<div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both">
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein<a name="bibliography"></a>Bibliography (and Suggested Reading)</h2></div></div></div>
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein<div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title">
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein<a name="rfcs"></a>Request for Comments (RFCs)</h3></div></div></div>
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein Specification documents for the Internet protocol suite, including
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein the <span class="acronym">DNS</span>, are published as part of
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein the Request for Comments (RFCs)
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein series of technical notes. The standards themselves are defined
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and the Internet
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein Engineering Steering Group (IESG). RFCs can be obtained online via FTP at
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein <a href="ftp://www.isi.edu/in-notes/" target="_top">
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein ftp://www.isi.edu/in-notes/RFC<em class="replaceable"><code>xxx</code></em>.txt
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein (where <em class="replaceable"><code>xxx</code></em> is
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein the number of the RFC). RFCs are also available via the Web at
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein <a href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/" target="_top">http://www.ietf.org/rfc/</a>.
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein<div class="titlepage"><div><div><h4 class="title">
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein<a name="id2560690"></a>Bibliography</h4></div></div></div>
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein<div class="biblioentry"><p>[<span class="abbrev">RFC974</span>] <span class="author"><span class="firstname">C.</span> <span class="surname">Partridge</span>. </span><span class="title"><i>Mail Routing and the Domain System</i>. </span><span class="pubdate">January 1986. </span></p></div>
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein<div class="biblioentry"><p>[<span class="abbrev">RFC1034</span>] <span class="author"><span class="firstname">P.V.</span> <span class="surname">Mockapetris</span>. </span><span class="title"><i>Domain Names — Concepts and Facilities</i>. </span><span class="pubdate">November 1987. </span></p></div>
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein<div class="biblioentry"><p>[<span class="abbrev">RFC1035</span>] <span class="author"><span class="firstname">P. V.</span> <span class="surname">Mockapetris</span>. </span><span class="title"><i>Domain Names — Implementation and
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein Specification</i>. </span><span class="pubdate">November 1987. </span></p></div>
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein<a name="proposed_standards"></a>Proposed Standards</h3>
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein<div class="biblioentry"><p>[<span class="abbrev">RFC2181</span>] <span class="author"><span class="firstname">R., R. Bush</span> <span class="surname">Elz</span>. </span><span class="title"><i>Clarifications to the <span class="acronym">DNS</span>
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein Specification</i>. </span><span class="pubdate">July 1997. </span></p></div>
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein<div class="biblioentry"><p>[<span class="abbrev">RFC2308</span>] <span class="author"><span class="firstname">M.</span> <span class="surname">Andrews</span>. </span><span class="title"><i>Negative Caching of <span class="acronym">DNS</span>
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein Queries</i>. </span><span class="pubdate">March 1998. </span></p></div>
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein<div class="biblioentry"><p>[<span class="abbrev">RFC1995</span>] <span class="author"><span class="firstname">M.</span> <span class="surname">Ohta</span>. </span><span class="title"><i>Incremental Zone Transfer in <span class="acronym">DNS</span></i>. </span><span class="pubdate">August 1996. </span></p></div>
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein<div class="biblioentry"><p>[<span class="abbrev">RFC1996</span>] <span class="author"><span class="firstname">P.</span> <span class="surname">Vixie</span>. </span><span class="title"><i>A Mechanism for Prompt Notification of Zone Changes</i>. </span><span class="pubdate">August 1996. </span></p></div>
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein<div class="biblioentry"><p>[<span class="abbrev">RFC2136</span>] <span class="authorgroup"><span class="firstname">P.</span> <span class="surname">Vixie</span>, <span class="firstname">S.</span> <span class="surname">Thomson</span>, <span class="firstname">Y.</span> <span class="surname">Rekhter</span>, and <span class="firstname">J.</span> <span class="surname">Bound</span>. </span><span class="title"><i>Dynamic Updates in the Domain Name System</i>. </span><span class="pubdate">April 1997. </span></p></div>
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein<div class="biblioentry"><p>[<span class="abbrev">RFC2845</span>] <span class="authorgroup"><span class="firstname">P.</span> <span class="surname">Vixie</span>, <span class="firstname">O.</span> <span class="surname">Gudmundsson</span>, <span class="firstname">D.</span> <span class="surname">Eastlake</span>, <span class="lineage">3rd</span>, and <span class="firstname">B.</span> <span class="surname">Wellington</span>. </span><span class="title"><i>Secret Key Transaction Authentication for <span class="acronym">DNS</span> (TSIG)</i>. </span><span class="pubdate">May 2000. </span></p></div>
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein<h3 class="title">Proposed Standards Still Under Development</h3>
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein<div class="note" style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;">
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein <span class="emphasis"><em>Note:</em></span> the following list of
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein RFCs are undergoing major revision by the IETF.
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein<div class="biblioentry"><p>[<span class="abbrev">RFC1886</span>] <span class="authorgroup"><span class="firstname">S.</span> <span class="surname">Thomson</span> and <span class="firstname">C.</span> <span class="surname">Huitema</span>. </span><span class="title"><i><span class="acronym">DNS</span> Extensions to support IP
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein version 6</i>. </span><span class="pubdate">December 1995. </span></p></div>
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein<div class="biblioentry"><p>[<span class="abbrev">RFC2065</span>] <span class="authorgroup"><span class="firstname">D.</span> <span class="surname">Eastlake</span>, <span class="lineage">3rd</span> and <span class="firstname">C.</span> <span class="surname">Kaufman</span>. </span><span class="title"><i>Domain Name System Security Extensions</i>. </span><span class="pubdate">January 1997. </span></p></div>
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein<div class="biblioentry"><p>[<span class="abbrev">RFC2137</span>] <span class="author"><span class="firstname">D.</span> <span class="surname">Eastlake</span>, <span class="lineage">3rd</span>. </span><span class="title"><i>Secure Domain Name System Dynamic Update</i>. </span><span class="pubdate">April 1997. </span></p></div>
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein<h3 class="title">Other Important RFCs About <span class="acronym">DNS</span>
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein Implementation</h3>
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein<div class="biblioentry"><p>[<span class="abbrev">RFC1535</span>] <span class="author"><span class="firstname">E.</span> <span class="surname">Gavron</span>. </span><span class="title"><i>A Security Problem and Proposed Correction With Widely
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein Deployed <span class="acronym">DNS</span> Software.</i>. </span><span class="pubdate">October 1993. </span></p></div>
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein<div class="biblioentry"><p>[<span class="abbrev">RFC1536</span>] <span class="authorgroup"><span class="firstname">A.</span> <span class="surname">Kumar</span>, <span class="firstname">J.</span> <span class="surname">Postel</span>, <span class="firstname">C.</span> <span class="surname">Neuman</span>, <span class="firstname">P.</span> <span class="surname">Danzig</span>, and <span class="firstname">S.</span> <span class="surname">Miller</span>. </span><span class="title"><i>Common <span class="acronym">DNS</span> Implementation
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein Errors and Suggested Fixes</i>. </span><span class="pubdate">October 1993. </span></p></div>
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein<div class="biblioentry"><p>[<span class="abbrev">RFC1982</span>] <span class="authorgroup"><span class="firstname">R.</span> <span class="surname">Elz</span> and <span class="firstname">R.</span> <span class="surname">Bush</span>. </span><span class="title"><i>Serial Number Arithmetic</i>. </span><span class="pubdate">August 1996. </span></p></div>
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein<div class="biblioentry"><p>[<span class="abbrev">RFC1183</span>] <span class="authorgroup"><span class="firstname">C.F.</span> <span class="surname">Everhart</span>, <span class="firstname">L. A.</span> <span class="surname">Mamakos</span>, <span class="firstname">R.</span> <span class="surname">Ullmann</span>, and <span class="firstname">P.</span> <span class="surname">Mockapetris</span>. </span><span class="title"><i>New <span class="acronym">DNS</span> RR Definitions</i>. </span><span class="pubdate">October 1990. </span></p></div>
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein<div class="biblioentry"><p>[<span class="abbrev">RFC1706</span>] <span class="authorgroup"><span class="firstname">B.</span> <span class="surname">Manning</span> and <span class="firstname">R.</span> <span class="surname">Colella</span>. </span><span class="title"><i><span class="acronym">DNS</span> NSAP Resource Records</i>. </span><span class="pubdate">October 1994. </span></p></div>
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein<div class="biblioentry"><p>[<span class="abbrev">RFC2168</span>] <span class="authorgroup"><span class="firstname">R.</span> <span class="surname">Daniel</span> and <span class="firstname">M.</span> <span class="surname">Mealling</span>. </span><span class="title"><i>Resolution of Uniform Resource Identifiers using
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein the Domain Name System</i>. </span><span class="pubdate">June 1997. </span></p></div>
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein<div class="biblioentry"><p>[<span class="abbrev">RFC1876</span>] <span class="authorgroup"><span class="firstname">C.</span> <span class="surname">Davis</span>, <span class="firstname">P.</span> <span class="surname">Vixie</span>, <span class="firstname">T.</span>, and <span class="firstname">I.</span> <span class="surname">Dickinson</span>. </span><span class="title"><i>A Means for Expressing Location Information in the
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein Name System</i>. </span><span class="pubdate">January 1996. </span></p></div>
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein<div class="biblioentry"><p>[<span class="abbrev">RFC2052</span>] <span class="authorgroup"><span class="firstname">A.</span> <span class="surname">Gulbrandsen</span> and <span class="firstname">P.</span> <span class="surname">Vixie</span>. </span><span class="title"><i>A <span class="acronym">DNS</span> RR for Specifying the
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein Services.</i>. </span><span class="pubdate">October 1996. </span></p></div>
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein<div class="biblioentry"><p>[<span class="abbrev">RFC2163</span>] <span class="author"><span class="firstname">A.</span> <span class="surname">Allocchio</span>. </span><span class="title"><i>Using the Internet <span class="acronym">DNS</span> to
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein Distribute MIXER
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein Conformant Global Address Mapping</i>. </span><span class="pubdate">January 1998. </span></p></div>
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein<div class="biblioentry"><p>[<span class="abbrev">RFC2230</span>] <span class="author"><span class="firstname">R.</span> <span class="surname">Atkinson</span>. </span><span class="title"><i>Key Exchange Delegation Record for the <span class="acronym">DNS</span></i>. </span><span class="pubdate">October 1997. </span></p></div>
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein<span class="acronym">DNS</span> and the Internet</h3>
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein<div class="biblioentry"><p>[<span class="abbrev">RFC1101</span>] <span class="author"><span class="firstname">P. V.</span> <span class="surname">Mockapetris</span>. </span><span class="title"><i><span class="acronym">DNS</span> Encoding of Network Names
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein and Other Types</i>. </span><span class="pubdate">April 1989. </span></p></div>
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein<div class="biblioentry"><p>[<span class="abbrev">RFC1123</span>] <span class="author"><span class="surname">Braden</span>. </span><span class="title"><i>Requirements for Internet Hosts - Application and
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein Support</i>. </span><span class="pubdate">October 1989. </span></p></div>
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein<div class="biblioentry"><p>[<span class="abbrev">RFC1591</span>] <span class="author"><span class="firstname">J.</span> <span class="surname">Postel</span>. </span><span class="title"><i>Domain Name System Structure and Delegation</i>. </span><span class="pubdate">March 1994. </span></p></div>
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein<div class="biblioentry"><p>[<span class="abbrev">RFC2317</span>] <span class="authorgroup"><span class="firstname">H.</span> <span class="surname">Eidnes</span>, <span class="firstname">G.</span> <span class="surname">de Groot</span>, and <span class="firstname">P.</span> <span class="surname">Vixie</span>. </span><span class="title"><i>Classless IN-ADDR.ARPA Delegation</i>. </span><span class="pubdate">March 1998. </span></p></div>
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein<div class="biblioentry"><p>[<span class="abbrev">RFC1537</span>] <span class="author"><span class="firstname">P.</span> <span class="surname">Beertema</span>. </span><span class="title"><i>Common <span class="acronym">DNS</span> Data File
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein Configuration Errors</i>. </span><span class="pubdate">October 1993. </span></p></div>
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein<div class="biblioentry"><p>[<span class="abbrev">RFC1912</span>] <span class="author"><span class="firstname">D.</span> <span class="surname">Barr</span>. </span><span class="title"><i>Common <span class="acronym">DNS</span> Operational and
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein Configuration Errors</i>. </span><span class="pubdate">February 1996. </span></p></div>
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein<div class="biblioentry"><p>[<span class="abbrev">RFC2010</span>] <span class="authorgroup"><span class="firstname">B.</span> <span class="surname">Manning</span> and <span class="firstname">P.</span> <span class="surname">Vixie</span>. </span><span class="title"><i>Operational Criteria for Root Name Servers.</i>. </span><span class="pubdate">October 1996. </span></p></div>
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein<div class="biblioentry"><p>[<span class="abbrev">RFC2219</span>] <span class="authorgroup"><span class="firstname">M.</span> <span class="surname">Hamilton</span> and <span class="firstname">R.</span> <span class="surname">Wright</span>. </span><span class="title"><i>Use of <span class="acronym">DNS</span> Aliases for
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein Network Services.</i>. </span><span class="pubdate">October 1997. </span></p></div>
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein<h3 class="title">Other <span class="acronym">DNS</span>-related RFCs</h3>
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein<div class="note" style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;">
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein Note: the following list of RFCs, although
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein <span class="acronym">DNS</span>-related, are not
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein concerned with implementing software.
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein<div class="biblioentry"><p>[<span class="abbrev">RFC1464</span>] <span class="author"><span class="firstname">R.</span> <span class="surname">Rosenbaum</span>. </span><span class="title"><i>Using the Domain Name System To Store Arbitrary String
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein Attributes</i>. </span><span class="pubdate">May 1993. </span></p></div>
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein<div class="biblioentry"><p>[<span class="abbrev">RFC1713</span>] <span class="author"><span class="firstname">A.</span> <span class="surname">Romao</span>. </span><span class="title"><i>Tools for <span class="acronym">DNS</span> Debugging</i>. </span><span class="pubdate">November 1994. </span></p></div>
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein<div class="biblioentry"><p>[<span class="abbrev">RFC1794</span>] <span class="author"><span class="firstname">T.</span> <span class="surname">Brisco</span>. </span><span class="title"><i><span class="acronym">DNS</span> Support for Load
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein Balancing</i>. </span><span class="pubdate">April 1995. </span></p></div>
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein<div class="biblioentry"><p>[<span class="abbrev">RFC2240</span>] <span class="author"><span class="firstname">O.</span> <span class="surname">Vaughan</span>. </span><span class="title"><i>A Legal Basis for Domain Name Allocation</i>. </span><span class="pubdate">November 1997. </span></p></div>
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein<div class="biblioentry"><p>[<span class="abbrev">RFC2345</span>] <span class="authorgroup"><span class="firstname">J.</span> <span class="surname">Klensin</span>, <span class="firstname">T.</span> <span class="surname">Wolf</span>, and <span class="firstname">G.</span> <span class="surname">Oglesby</span>. </span><span class="title"><i>Domain Names and Company Name Retrieval</i>. </span><span class="pubdate">May 1998. </span></p></div>
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein<div class="biblioentry"><p>[<span class="abbrev">RFC2352</span>] <span class="author"><span class="firstname">O.</span> <span class="surname">Vaughan</span>. </span><span class="title"><i>A Convention For Using Legal Names as Domain Names</i>. </span><span class="pubdate">May 1998. </span></p></div>
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein<h3 class="title">Obsolete and Unimplemented Experimental RRs</h3>
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein<div class="biblioentry"><p>[<span class="abbrev">RFC1712</span>] <span class="authorgroup"><span class="firstname">C.</span> <span class="surname">Farrell</span>, <span class="firstname">M.</span> <span class="surname">Schulze</span>, <span class="firstname">S.</span> <span class="surname">Pleitner</span>, and <span class="firstname">D.</span> <span class="surname">Baldoni</span>. </span><span class="title"><i><span class="acronym">DNS</span> Encoding of Geographical
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein Location</i>. </span><span class="pubdate">November 1994. </span></p></div>
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein<div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title">
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein<a name="internet_drafts"></a>Internet Drafts</h3></div></div></div>
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein Internet Drafts (IDs) are rough-draft working documents of
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein the Internet Engineering Task Force. They are, in essence, RFCs
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein in the preliminary stages of development. Implementors are
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein cautioned not
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein to regard IDs as archival, and they should not be quoted or cited
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein in any formal documents unless accompanied by the disclaimer that
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein they are "works in progress." IDs have a lifespan of six months
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein after which they are deleted unless updated by their authors.
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein<div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title">
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein<a name="id2562071"></a>Other Documents About <span class="acronym">BIND</span></h3></div></div></div>
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein<div class="titlepage"><div><div><h4 class="title">
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein<a name="id2562081"></a>Bibliography</h4></div></div></div>
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