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- Network Working Group C. Perkins
- Request for Comments: 2610 E. Guttman
- Category: Standards Track Sun Microsystems
- June 1999
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- DHCP Options for Service Location Protocol
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- Status of this Memo
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- This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the
- Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for
- improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet
- Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state
- and status of this protocol. Distribution of this memo is unlimited.
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- Copyright Notice
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- Copyright (C) The Internet Society (1999). All Rights Reserved.
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- Abstract
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- The Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol provides a framework for
- passing configuration information to hosts on a TCP/IP network.
- Entities using the Service Location Protocol need to find out the
- address of Directory Agents in order to transact messages. Another
- option provides an assignment of scope for configuration of SLP User
- and Service Agents.
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- 1. Introduction
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- The Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol [2] provides a framework for
- passing configuration information to hosts on a TCP/IP network.
- Entities using the Service Location Protocol, Version 2 [3] and
- Service Location Protocol, Version 1 [4] need to obtain the address
- of Directory Agents and Scope configuration. The Service Location
- Protocol (SLP) provides a default configuration for Scopes and
- Directory Agents may be discovered using multicast or broadcast. It
- is useful in a larger deployment to be able to configure SLP Agents
- using DHCP, so as to centralize the administration and to deploy SLP
- in networks where multicast routing is not available.
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- The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
- "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
- document are to be interpreted as described in [1].
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- 2. Introduction
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- The DHCP options described below are used to configure Agents using
- the Service Location Protocol, Version 2 [3] and Version 1 [4].
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- The SLP Directory Agent option is used to configure User Agents and
- Service Agents with the location of Directory Agents in the network.
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- The SLP Scope Option takes precedence over both default and static
- scope configuration of SLP agents.
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- 3. SLP Directory Agent Option
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- This option specifies the location of one or more SLP Directory
- Agents.
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- 0 1 2 3
- 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
- +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
- | Code = 78 | Length | Mandatory | a1 |
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- | a2 | a3 | a4 | ...
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- The SLP Directory Agent Option specifies a list of IP addresses for
- Directory Agents. Directory Agents MUST be listed in order of
- preference, if there is an order of preference.
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- The Length value must include one for the 'Mandatory' byte and
- include four for each Directory Agent address which follows. Thus,
- the Length minus one of the option MUST always be divisible by 4 and
- has a minimum value of 5.
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- The address of the Directory Agent is given in network byte order.
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- The 'Mandatory' byte in the Directory Agent option may be set to
- either 0 or 1. If it is set to 1, the SLP User Agent or Service
- Agent so configured MUST NOT employ either active or passive
- multicast discovery of Directory Agents.
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- Note that for backward compatibility with some deployed software the
- Mandatory byte MUST NOT be set to any byte value for which the high
- order bit (0x80) is set.
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- The Directory Agents listed in this option MUST be configured with
- the a non-empty subset of the scope list that the Agent receiving the
- Directory Agent Option is configured with. See the notes below.
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- The SLPv2 specification [3] defines how to use this option.
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- 4. SLP Service Scope Option
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- The scope list is a comma delimited list which indicates the scopes
- that a SLP Agent is configured to use.
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- 0 1 2 3
- 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
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- | Code = 79 | Length | Mandatory | <Scope List>...
- +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
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- The Length indicates the number of bytes which follow. Since the
- Scope-List String is encoded using UTF-8 [5] characters, it may be
- the cast that the Length is not the same as the number of characters
- in the Scope-List String. The Length value must include one for the
- 'Mandatory' byte.
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- The 'Mandatory' byte determines whether SLP Agents override their
- static configuration for scopes with the <Scope List> string provided
- by the option. This allows DHCP administrators to implement a policy
- of assigning a set of scopes to Agents for service provision. If the
- Mandatory byte is 0, static configuration takes precedence over the
- DHCP provided scope list. If the Mandatory byte is 1, the <Scope
- List> provided in this option MUST be used by the SLP Agent.
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- The Scope List String syntax and usage are defined in the SLPv2
- specification [3].
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- 4.1. Zero Length Scope-List String Configuration
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- A SLP Service Scope Option which indicates a Length of 1 (in other
- words, omitting the <Scope List> string entirely) validly configures
- the SLP User Agent to use "User Selectable Scopes."
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- The SLP Agent will use the aggregated list of scopes of all known
- DAs. If no DAs are known, the UA will use SA discovery to determine
- the list of scopes on the network, as defined in [3].
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- Note that this configuration is tantamount to removing all
- centralized control of the scope configuration of hosts on the
- network. This makes it possible for every User Agent to see every
- service. This may not be desirable as users may not be able to or
- desire to decide which services are appropriate for them.
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- 5. Security Considerations
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- If a malicious host is able to insert fraudulent information in
- DHCPOFFER packets sent to a prospective SLP Agent then the SLP Agent
- will be unable to obtain service, or may unwittingly be directed to
- use the incorrect services.
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- Many opportunities for denial of service exist. A service agent
- could find that it might rely on fraudulent or otherwise malicious
- directory agents to advertise its services. DHCPOFFERs could prevent
- the regular SLP framework from functioning by directing clients to
- not use multicast, to use nonexistent directory agents and so on.
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- These difficulties are inherited from the much larger and more
- serious problem, viz. securing or authenticating any information
- whatsoever from a DHCP server (or client!) is not possible in common
- DHCP deployments.
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- References
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- [1] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement
- Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997.
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- [2] Droms, R., "Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol", RFC 2131, March
- 1997.
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- [3] E. Guttman, C. Perkins, J. Veizades, and M. Day, "Service
- Location Protocol version 2", Work in Progress.
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- [4] Veizades, J., Guttman, E., Perkins, C. and S. Kaplan, "Service
- Location Protocol", RFC 2165, July 1997.
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- [5] Yergeau, F., "UTF-8, a transformation format of unicode and ISO
- 10646", RFC 2279, October 1998.
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- Authors' Addresses
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- Charles E. Perkins
- Technology Development Group
- Mail Stop MPK15-214
- Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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- Phone: +1 650-786-6464
- Fax: +1 650-786-6445
- EMail: Charles.Perkins@Sun.Com
- Web: http://www.svrloc.org/~charliep
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- Erik Guttman
- Technology Development Group
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- Sun Microsystems, Inc.
- Bahnstr. 2
- 74915 Waibstadt, Germany
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- Phone: +49 7263 911 701
- or: +1 650 786 5992
- EMail: Erik.Guttman@Sun.Com
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