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- CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_
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- Reported by Michael Reilly/DEC
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- DNS Minutes
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- We began this meeting of the DNS Working Group by discussing
- administrative details. Several Working Group members expressed
- problems in getting added to the namedroppers mailing list. The Working
- Group decided it would be beneficial to setup a DNS Working Group
- mailing list. Mike Reilly volunteered to host the list.
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- The mailing list is dns-wg@nsl.dec.com. Add/drop requests are to be
- sent to dns-wg-request@nsl.dec.com.
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- We spent some time discussing the Charter of the Working Group. Several
- goals were identified for the near term. Discussion of these goals is
- to take place on the mailing list. The top four goals are:
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- o Define DNS related MIB variables. The Working Group does not have
- experience in writing MIB definitions so we will produce a list of
- variables and work with others to produce the document describing
- them.
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- o Produce a DNS Operator's Guide for publication as an informational
- RFC. There was some discussion concerning the inclusion of BIND
- specific information in the RFC or whether the guide should simply
- discuss operational experience from the Internet. This was not
- resolved at the meeting but will be resolved as work progresses.
- The relationship between this document and RFC 1033 (Domain
- Operations Guide) as also discussed.
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- o Investigate additional Resource Records as well as other changes to
- the DNS RFC's. Many of the proposed changes to the DNS RFC's come
- as a of the publication of the host requirements RFC (1123) or as a
- result of operational requirements in the Internet. The Working
- Group expects to be involved in producing additional RFC's as the
- need arises.
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- o Investigate and document the security (or lack of ) in the current
- DNS and in common implementations (for example, BIND).
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- Mike Reilly is working on an updated Charter which will describe these
- goals and include a time schedule. This will be posted to the mailing
- list for discussion and review next week.
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- The DNS Working Group will also be investigating ways to work closely
- with the individuals running DNS nameservers on the Internet. We hope
- to both learn form them so that the Operations Guide mentioned above
- will be as useful as possible and to serve as a useful resource for
- identification and resolution of problems encountered in operating DNS
- nameservers.
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- Phil Almquist is being funded to produce a more robust version of BIND
- for general distribution. He presented his plans and time schedule in
- detail during the DNS Working Group meeting. The discussion following
- his presentation indicated that there was positive support for his
- efforts.
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- We spent that last portion of the meeting discussing ways in which the
- DNS could and should be used as a part of dynamic host configuration.
- Several members of the Dynamic Host Configuration Working Group
- described their needs and limitations in the current DNS which prevent
- its use for this purpose. The discussions helped make many of the DNS
- Working Group members aware of the needs hosts wishing to dynamically
- configure. We will work with the Dynamic Host Configuration Working
- Group to determine how the DNS can help them.
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- Attendees
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- Philip Almquist almquist@jessica.stanford.edu
- Lida Carrier lida@apple.com
- Bill Durham durham@MDC.COM
- Robert Enger enger@seka.scc.com
- Charles Fineberg fineberg@wums2.wustl.edu
- Karen Frisa karen.frisa@andrew.cmu.edu
- Jeremy Greene greene@coral.com
- Patrick Heisinger heisinger@mdcguy.mdc.com
- Ajay Kachrani kachrani@regent.enet.dec.com
- Tom Kessler kessler@sun.com
- Anders Klemets klemets@cs.cmu.edu
- Bill Manning bmanning@houston.sc.ti.com
- Mike Marcinkevicz mdm@calstate.edu
- Carol Melowitz melowitz@mdcgwy.mdc.com
- Donald Merritt don@brl.mil
- Mark Moody ccmarkm@umcvmb.missouri.edu
- Michael Patton map@lcs.mit.edu
- Jan Michael Rynning jmr@nada.kth.se
- Tim Seaver tas@mcnc.org
- John Veizades veizades@apple.com
- Walter Wimer walter.wimer@andrew.cmu.edu
- Linda Winkler lwinkler@anl.gov
- Cathy Wittbrodt cjw@nersc.gov
- Wing Fai Wong wfwong@malta.sbi.com
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