Internet Info 1994 March/Internet Info CD-ROM (Walnut Creek) (March 1994).iso/inet/ietf/dns/dns-minutes-91nov.txt

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CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_


Reported by Michael Reilly/DEC Minutes of the Domain Name System (DNS)

The primary purpose of this meeting was to discuss the DNS MIB and
issues related to its development.  The following topics were put up for
discussion:


   o Grouping of the Objects
   o Selection of Object to include
   o Read-write status of the Objects
   o Additional Objects to include


An early draft was handed out to focus discussion.  It contained all of
the groups currently proposed as well as many of the objects for each of
the groups.

One of the first items was a discussion of what imperative operations
would be allowed via SNMP. After some discussion we agreed to include an
object which would tell the server to do a zone update now.

It was also agreed that we would provide a mechanism which would allow
for cache entries to be removed - this may be accomplished by setting
the TTL to zero for the specified entry.  There was a strong desire to
have the cache table have an entry for the source of the cache
information to aid in debugging.

The most difficult subject was whether to allow SNMP to add or modify
records in permanent storage (i.e., not just in cache).  Since the exact
sequence of events to take place on a server when a record is modified
was never specified, it is difficult to write MIB elements until this is
understood.  It was agreed that Bob Austein would attempt to write up
the ``rules'' which define the sequence of steps to be taken when an
actions such as the creation of an A record is specified.  Jon Saperia
will work with Bob to write a set of corresponding MIB objects which
reflect these ``rules''.

There was also a discussion of how various counter information would be
tabulated in the MIB. Several of the requests were to be able to see
request not only by record type, but also by:


   o Requests via UDP
   o Requests via TCP
   o Number of local requests
   o Number of remote requests


In addition to these ``cuts'' at the data, several suggestions were made
about the specific items to count.  There are now lists of counters
suggested by both Win Treese and Phil Almquist.  They will be reconciled

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and put into the appropriate counters groups in the next version of the
MIB which will be posted to the mailing list.

Bob Austein also brought up the general issue of how to deal with the
changes that may be coming up in IP addressing and subnet mask sizes.
He will work on some ideas an present that information to the Working
Group for discussion.

The group expressed a desire for the mailing list for the Working Group
to be the namedroppers mailing list.

Attendees

Steve Alexander          [e-mail]
Philip Almquist          [e-mail]
Mary Artibee             [e-mail]
Robert Austein           [e-mail]
Ronald Broersma          [e-mail]
Lida Carrier             [e-mail]
Robert Enger             [e-mail]
Scott Kaplan
Darren Kinley            [e-mail]
Walter Lazear            [e-mail]
Gary Malkin              [e-mail]
Milo Medin               [e-mail]
Paul Mockapetris         [e-mail]
J. Bradford Parker       [e-mail]
Brad Passwaters          [e-mail]
Michael Patton           [e-mail]
Robert Purvy             [e-mail]
Jonathan Saperia         [e-mail]
Tim Seaver               [e-mail]
Frank Slaughter          [e-mail]
Michael St.  Johns       [e-mail]
Martha Steenstrup        [e-mail]
John Veizades            [e-mail]
Scott Williamson         [e-mail]
Walter Wimer             [e-mail]
Cathy Wittbrodt          [e-mail]
Robert Woodburn          [e-mail]
Nancy Yeager             [e-mail]



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