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    <front>
        <title>Chain Query requests in DNS</title>
        <author initials='P.' surname="Wouters" fullname='Paul Wouters'>
            <organization>Red Hat</organization>
            <address>
              <email>pwouters@redhat.com</email>
            </address>
        </author>
        <date month="October" day="19" year="2015" />
        <area>ops</area>
        <workgroup>dnsop</workgroup>

        <abstract><t>
            This document defines an EDNS0 extension that can be used by a
            security-aware validating Resolver configured as a Forwarder
            to send a single query, requesting a complete validation
            path along with the regular query answer.  The reduction
            in queries lowers the latency. This extension requries the
            use of source IP verified transport such as TCP or UDP with
            EDNS-COOKIE so it cannot be abused in amplification attacks.
        </t></abstract>
    </front>

    <middle>
        <section title="Introduction">
          <t>
            Traditionally, a DNS client operates in stub-mode. For
            each DNS question the DNS client needs to resolve, it sends a
            single query to an upstream Recursive Resolver to obtain a single
            DNS answer. When DNSSEC <xref target='RFC4033'/> is deployed
            on such DNS clients, validation requires that the client obtains
            all the intermediate information from the DNS root down to
            the queried-for hostname so it can perform DNSSEC validation
            on the complete chain of trust.
           </t>
           <t>
           Currently, applications send out many UDP requests
           concurrently. This requires more resources on the DNS
           client with respect to state (cpu, memory, battery) and
           bandwidth. There is also no guarantee that the initial set
           of UDP questions will result in all the records required
           for DNSSEC validation. More round trips could be required
           depending on the resulting DNS answers. This especially
           affects high-latency links.
          </t>
          <t>
            This document specifies an EDNS0 extension that allows a
            validating Resolver running as a Forwarder to open a TCP
            connection to another Resolver and request a DNS chain
            answer using one DNS query/answer pair. This reduces the
            number of round trips to two. If combined with long
            lived TCP or <xref target="TCP-KEEPALIVE"/> there is only one round trip. While the
            upstream Resolver still needs to perform all the individual
            queries required for the complete answer, it usually has
            a much bigger cache and does not experience significant
            slowdown from last-mile latency.
          </t>

          <t>
            This EDNS0 extension allows the Forwarder to indicate which
            part of the DNS hierarchy it already contains in its cache.
            This reduces the amount of data required to be transferred
            and reduces the work the upstream Recursive Resolver has
            to perform.
           </t>
           <t>
            This EDNS0 extension is only intended to be sent by Forwarders
            to Recursive Resolvers.  It can (and should) be ignored by
            Authoritative Servers.
           </t>

            <section title="Requirements Notation">
                <t>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 <xref target="RFC2119"/>.</t>
            </section>
          </section>

        <section title="Terminology">
           <t>The DNS terminology used in this document is that of
              <xref target="DNS-TERMINOLOGY"/>. Additionally, the following
              terms are used: [edit: which I hope will end up in the terminology document]</t>
           <t><list style="hanging">
               <t hangText="Recursive Resolver:">
               A nameserver that is responsible for resolving domain names
               for clients by following the domain's delegation chain,
               starting at the root. Recursive Resolvers frequently use
               caches to be able to respond to client queries quickly.
               Described in <xref target="RFC1035"/> chapter 7.</t>
               <t hangText="Validating Resolver:">
               A recursive nameserver that also performs DNSSEC <xref
               target='RFC4033'/> validation. Also known as "security-aware resolver".
               </t>
           </list></t>
        </section>

        <section title="Overview" anchor="overview">
         <t>
          When DNSSEC is deployed on a host, it can no longer delegate
          all DNS work to the upstream Recursive Resolver. Obtaining just
          the DNS answer itself is not enough to validate that answer
          using DNSSEC. For DNSSEC validation, the DNS client requires a
          locally running validating Resolver so it can confirm DNSSEC
          validation of all intermediary DNS answers. It can configure
          itself as a Forwarder if it obtains the IP addresses of
          one or more Recursive Resolvers that are available, or as a
          stand-alone Recursive Resolver if no functional Recursive
          Resolvers were obtained. Generating the required queries
          for validation adds a significant delay in answering the DNS
          question of the locally running application. The application
          must wait while the Resolver validates all intermediate
          answers. Each round-trip adds to the total time waiting
          on DNS resolution with validation to complete. This makes
          DNSSEC resolving impractical for devices on networks with a
          high latency.
         </t>
         <t>
          This document defines the CHAIN option that allows the Resolver
          to request all intermediate DNS data it requires to resolve and
          validate a particular DNS answer in a single round-trip. The Resolver
          could be part of the application or a Recursive Resolver running
          on the host.
         </t>
         <t>
          Servers answering with CHAIN data should ensure that the
          transport is TCP or source IP address verified UDP. See <xref
          target="security" />.  This avoids abuse in DNS amplification
          attacks.
         </t>
         <t>
          Applications that support CHAIN internally can perform
          validation without requiring the host the run a Recursive Resolver.
          This is particularly useful for virtual servers in a cloud or
          container based deployment where it is undesirable to run a Recursive
          Resolver per virtual machine.
         </t>
         <t>
         The format of this option is described in <xref target="format" />.
         </t>
         <t>
          As described in <xref target="responding" />, a Recursive
          Resolver could use this EDNS0 option to include additional
          data required by the Resolver in the Authority Section of the DNS
          answer packet when using a source IP verified transport. The
          Answer Section remains unchanged from a traditional DNS answer
          and contains the answer and related DNSSEC entries.
         </t>
         <t>An empty CHAIN EDNS0 option MAY be sent over any transport
            as a discovery method. A DNS server receiving such an empty CHAIN
            option SHOULD add an empty CHAIN option in its
            answer to indicate that it supports CHAIN for 
            source IP address verified transports.
         </t>
         <t>
          The mechanisms provided by CHAIN raise various
          security related concerns, related to the additional work,
          bandwidth, amplification attacks as well as privacy issues
          with the cache. These concerns are described in <xref
          target="security" />.
         </t>
       </section>

       <section title="Option Format" anchor="format">
           <t>This draft uses an EDNS0 <xref target="RFC6891"/> option to
           include client IP information in DNS messages. The option
           is structured as follows:</t>

           <figure><artwork align="left"><![CDATA[
                  
                     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
+-------------------------------+-------------------------------+
!         OPTION-CODE           !         OPTION-LENGTH         !
+-------------------------------+-------------------------------+
~                Closest Trust Point (FQDN)                   ~
+---------------------------------------------------------------+

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            <t><list style="symbols">
                <t>
                 OPTION-CODE, 2 octets, for CHAIN is [TBD1].
                </t>
                <t>
                 OPTION-LENGTH, 2 octets, contains the length of the payload (everything
                  after Option-length) in octets.
                </t>
                <t>
                 Closest Trust Point, a variable length FDQN of the
                 requested start point of the chain. This entry is the
                 'lowest' known entry in the DNS chain known by the
                 recursive server seeking a CHAIN answer for which it
                 has a validated DS and DNSKEY record.
                 The end point of the chain is obtained from the DNS
                 Query Section itself. No DNS name compression is
                 allowed for this value.
                </t>
            </list>
            </t>
        </section>

        <section title="Protocol Description">
          <section anchor="discovery" title="Discovery of Support">
           <t>A Forwarder may include a zero-length CHAIN
             option in a regular query over any transport to discover the DNS
             server capability for CHAIN. Recursive Resolvers
             that support and are willing to accept CHAIN queries over
             source IP verified transport respond to a zero-length
             CHAIN received by including a zero-length
             CHAIN option in the answer. If not already using a source IP verified
             transport, the Forwarder MAY then switch to a source IP verified transport
             and start sending queries with the CHAIN option to request a CHAIN
             response from the Recursive Resolver. Examples of source
             IP verification are the 3-way TCP handshake and UDP with
             <xref target="EDNS-COOKIE"/>.
             </t>
          </section>
          <section anchor="querying" title="Generate a Query">
            <t>
              In this option value, the Forwarder sets the Closest Trust Point
              in the chain - furthest from the root - that it already
              has a DNSSEC validated (secure or not) answer for in its cache.
              The upstream Recursive Resolver does not need to include
              any part of the chain from the root down to this option's FQDN. 
              A complete example is described in <xref target="example1" />.
            </t>
            <t>
              The CHAIN option should generally be sent
              by system Forwarders and Resolvers within an application
              that also perform DNSSEC validation.
            </t>

          </section>

        <section anchor="send_when" title="Send the Option">
          <t>
           When CHAIN is available, the downstream
           Recursive Resolver can adjust its query strategy based on
           the desired queries and its cache contents.
          </t>

          <t>
            A Forwarder can request the CHAIN option with
            every outgoing DNS query. However, it is RECOMMENDED that
            Forwarders remember which upstream Recursive Resolvers
            did not return the option (and additional data) with their
            response. The Forwarder SHOULD fallback to regular DNS for
            subsequent queries to those Recursive Resolvers. It MAY
            switch to another Recursive Resolver that does support
            the CHAIN option or try again later to see
            if the server has become less loaded and is now willing to
            answer with Query Chains.
          </t>
          </section>

          <section anchor="responding" title="Generate a Response">
            <t>
              When a query containing a non-zero CHAIN
              option is received from a Forwarder, the upstream Recursive
              Resolver supporting CHAIN MAY respond by
              confirming that it is returning a CHAIN. To do
              so, it MUST set the CHAIN option to the lowest Trust Point
              sent as part of the chain, with its corresponding 
              OPTION-LENGTH.  It extends the Authority Section in the DNS
              answer packet with the DNS RRsets required for validating
              the answer. The DNS RRsets added start with the first
              chain element below the received Closest Trust Point
              up to and including the NS and DS RRsets that represent the
              zone cut (authoritative servers) of the QNAME. The actual
              DNS answer to the question in the Query Section is placed
              in the DNS Answer Section identical to the traditional DNS
              answer. All required DNSSEC related records must be added to
              their appropriate sections. This includes records required for
              proof of non-existence of regular and/or wildcard records,
              such as NSEC or NSEC3 records.
            </t>

            <t>
              Recursive Resolvers that have not implemented or enabled
              support for the CHAIN option, or are otherwise
              unwilling to perform the additional work for a Chain
              Query due to work load, may safely ignore the option in
              the incoming queries. Such a server MUST NOT include an
              CHAIN option when sending DNS answer replies
              back, thus indicating it is not able or willing to support
              Chain Queries at this time.
            </t>

            <t>
              Requests with wrongly formatted options (i.e. bogus FQDN) MUST
              be rejected and a FORMERR response must be returned to the
              sender, as described by <xref target="RFC6891"/>.
            </t>

            <t>
              Requests resulting in chains that the receiving resolver
              is unwilling to serve can be rejected by answering the query
              as a regular DNS reply but with an empty CHAIN payload.
              Replying with an empty CHAIN can be used for chains
              that would be too big or chains that would reveal too much
              information considered private.
            </t>

            <t>At any time, a Recursive Resolver that has determined that
            it is running low on resources can refuse CHAIN queries by
            replying with a regular DNS reply with an empty CHAIN payload.
            </t>

            <t>If a CHAIN answer would be bigger than the Recursive Resolver is
             willing to serve, it SHOULD send a partial chain starting
             with the data closest to the top of the chain. The client
             MAY re-send the query with an updated Closest Trust Point
             until it has received the full chain. The CHAIN response
             will contain the lowest Closest Trust Point that was included
             in the CHAIN answer.
            </t>

            <t>
             If the DNS request results in an CNAME or DNAME for the
             Answer Section, the Recursive Resolver MUST return these
             records in the Answer Section similar to regular DNS
             processing. The CNAME or DNAME target MAY be placed in the
             Additional Section only if all supporting records for DNSSEC
             validation of the CNAME or DNAME target are also added to
             the Authority Section.
            </t>

            <t>
              The response from a Recursive Resolver to a Resolver MUST
              NOT contain the CHAIN option if none was present
              in the Resolver's original request.
            </t>
           <t>
             A DNS query that contains the CHAIN option
             MUST also have the DNSSEC OK bit set. If this bit is not set,
             the CHAIN option received MUST be ignored.
            </t>
          </section>

          </section>

        <section title="Protocol Considerations">
        <section title="DNSSEC Considerations">
          <t>
            The presence or absence of an OPT resource record containing
            an CHAIN option in a DNS query does not change
            the usage of those resource records and mechanisms used to
            provide data origin authentication and data integrity to
            the DNS, as described in <xref target="RFC4033" />, <xref
            target="RFC4034" /> and <xref target="RFC4035" />.
          </t>
        </section>

        <section title="NS record Considerations">
          <t>
           CHAIN responses MUST include the NS RRset
           from the child zone including the RRSIG records
           required for validation.</t>

          <t>
           When a DNSSEC chain is supplied via CHAIN, the
           Forwarder is no longer required to use the NS RRset, as it can
           construct the validation path via the DNSKEY and DS RRsets
           without using the NS RRset. However, the Forwarder
           might be forced to switch from Forwarder mode to Recursive
           Resolver mode due to a network topology change. In Recursive
           Resolver mode, the NS RRsets are needed to find and query
           Authoritative Servers directly. It is RECOMMENDED that the DNS
           Forwarder populate its cache with this information to avoid
           requiring future queries to obtain any missing NS records.
           Therefore, CHAIN responses MUST include the
           NS RRset from the child zone, including the RRSIG
           records required for validation.
          </t>
        </section>

      <section title="TCP Session Management">

        <t>It is RECOMMENDED that TCP sessions not immediately be closed
        after the DNS answer to the first query is received. It is recommended
        to use <xref target="TCP-KEEPALIVE"/>.
        </t>

	<t>
	  Both DNS clients and servers are subject to resource constraints
	  which will limit the extent to which Chain Queries can be
	  executed. Effective limits for the number of active sessions
	  that can be maintained on individual clients and servers
	  should be established, either as configuration options or
	  by interrogation of process limits imposed by the operating
	  system.
        </t>

	<t>
          In the event that there is greater demand for Chain Queries
	  than can be accommodated, DNS servers may stop advertising
	  the CHAIN option in successive DNS messages.
	  This allows, for example, clients with other candidate servers
	  to query to establish new sessions with different servers
	  in expectation that those servers might still allow Chain
	  Queries.
	  </t>
      </section>

      <section title="Negative Trust Anchors">
      <t> If a CHAIN answer would intersect with a Negative Trust Anchor
      <xref target="RFC7646"/>, a partian CHAIN up to the node above the
      Negative Trust Anchor should be returned.
      </t>
      </section>
      <section title="Non-Clean Paths">
	<t>Many paths between DNS clients and Recursive Resolvers suffer from
	  poor hygiene, limiting the free flow of DNS messages that
	  include particular EDNS0 options, or messages that exceed
	  a particular size. A fallback strategy similar to that
	  described in <xref target="RFC6891"/> section 6.2.2 SHOULD
	  be employed to avoid persistent interference due to
	  non-clean paths.</t>
      </section>

      <section title="Anycast Considerations">
	<t>Recursive Resolvers of various types are commonly deployed using
	  anycast <xref target="RFC4786"/>.</t>

	<t>Successive DNS transactions between a client and server
	  using UDP transport may involve responses generated by different
	  anycast nodes, and the use of anycast in the implementation
	  of a DNS server is effectively undetectable by the client. The
	  CHAIN option SHOULD NOT be included in responses
	  using UDP transport from servers provisioned using anycast
	  unless all anycast server nodes are capable of processing the
	  CHAIN option.
	  </t>

	<t>Changes in network topology between clients and anycast
	  servers may cause disruption to TCP sessions making use
	  of CHAIN more often than with TCP sessions
	  that omit it, since the TCP sessions are expected to be
	  longer-lived. Anycast servers MAY make use of TCP multipath
	  <xref target="RFC6824"/> to anchor the server side of the
	  TCP connection to an unambiguously-unicast address in
	  order to avoid disruption due to topology changes.</t>
      </section>

        </section>


        <section anchor="implementation" title="Implementation Status">
         <t>
           This section records the status of known implementations of
           the protocol defined by this specification at the time of
           posting of this Internet-Draft, and is based on a proposal
           described in <xref target="RFC6982" />.  The description of
           implementations in this section is intended to assist the
           IETF in its decision processes in progressing drafts to RFCs.
           Please note that the listing of any individual implementation
           here does not imply endorsement by the IETF.  Furthermore,
           no effort has been spent to verify the information presented
           here that was supplied by IETF contributors.  This is not
           intended as, and must not be construed to be, a catalog of
           available implementations or their features.  Readers are
           advised to note that other implementations may exist.
         </t>
         <t>
           According to <xref target="RFC6982" />, "this will allow
           reviewers and working groups to assign due consideration to
           documents that have the benefit of running code, which may
           serve as evidence of valuable experimentation and feedback
           that have made the implemented protocols more mature.  It is
           up to the individual working groups to use this information
           as they see fit".
         </t>
         <t>
           [While there is some interest, no work has started yet]
        </t>
      </section>


        <section anchor="security" title="Security Considerations">

          <section title="Amplification Attacks">
            <t>
             Chain Queries can potentially send very large DNS
             answers. Attackers could abuse this using spoofed source IP
             addresses to inflict large Distributed Denial of Service
             attacks using query-chains as an amplification vector in
             their attack. While TCP is not vulnerable for this type of
             abuse, the UDP protocol is vulnerable to this.
            </t>
            <t>A Recursive Resolver MUST NOT return CHAIN answers
             to clients over UDP without source IP address verification.
             An example of UDP based source IP address verification is <xref target="EDNS-COOKIE"/>.
             A Recursive Resolver refusing a CHAIN option MUST respond
             with a zero-length CHAIN option to indicate support for CHAIN queries when a proper transport
             is used. It MUST NOT send an RCODE of REFUSED.
            </t>
          </section>

        </section>

        <section anchor="example" title="Examples">
         <section anchor="example1" title="Simple Query for example.com">
          <t><list style="symbols">
              <t>
                A web browser on a client machine asks the Forwarder
                running on localhost to resolve the A record of
                "www.example.com." by sending a regular DNS UDP query
                on port 53 to 127.0.0.1.
              </t>
              <t>
                The Forwarder on the client machine checks its cache, and
                notices it already has a DNSSEC validated entry of "com." in
                its cache. This includes the DNSKEY RRset with its
                RRSIG records.  In other words, according to its cache,
                ".com" is DNSSEC validated as "secure" and can be used
                to continue a DNSSEC validated chain.
              </t>
              <t>
               The Forwarder on the client opens a TCP connection to
               its upstream Recursive Resolver on port 53. It adds the
               CHAIN option as follows:
                <list style="symbols">
                  <t>Option-code, set to [TBD1]</t>
                  <t>Option-length, set to 0x00 0x04</t>
                  <t>Closest Trust Point set to "com."</t>
                </list>
              </t>
              <t>
               The upstream Recursive Resolver receives a DNS query over
               TCP with the CHAIN Closest Trust Point set to
               "com.". After accepting the query it starts constructing
               a DNS reply packet.
              </t>
              <t>
                The upstream Recursive Resolver performs all the regular work to
                ensure it has all the answers to the query for the A record of
                "www.example.com.". It does so without using the CHAIN
                option - unless it is also configured as a Forwarder. The answer
                to the original DNS question could be the actual A record,
                the DNSSEC proof of non-existence, or an insecure NXDOMAIN response.
              </t>
              <t>
               The upstream Recursive Resolver adds the CHAIN option
               to the DNS response as follows:
                <list style="symbols">
                  <t>Option-code, set to [TBD1]</t>
                  <t>Option-length, set to 0x00 0x00</t>
                  <t>The Closest Trust Point is ommited (zero length)</t>
                </list>
              </t>
              <t>
               The upstream Recursive Resolver constructs the DNS
               Authority Section and fills it with:
               <list style="symbols">
                 <t>The DS RRset for "example.com." and its corresponding
                    RRSIGs (made by the "com." DNSKEY(s))</t>
                 <t>The DNSKEY RRset for "example.com." and its
                    corresponding RRSIGs (made by the "example.com"
                    DNSKEY(s))</t>
                 <t>The authoritative NS RRset for "example.com." and
                    its corresponding RRSIGs (from the child zone)</t>
                </list>
                If the answer does not exist, and the zone uses DNSSEC,
                it also adds the proof of non-existence, such as NSEC
                or NSEC3 records, to the Authority Section.
              </t>
              <t>
               The upstream Recursive Resolver constructs the DNS Answer
               Section and fills it with:
               <list style="symbols">
                 <t>The A record of "www.example.com." and its corresponding RRSIGs</t>
               </list>
               If the answer does not exist (NODATA or NXDOMAIN),
               the Answer Section remains empty. For the NXDOMAIN
               case, the RCode of the DNS answer packet is set to
               NXDOMAIN. Otherwise it remains NOERROR.
              </t>
              
              <t>
               The upstream Recursive Resolver returns the DNS answer
               over the existing TCP connection. When all data is sent,
               it SHOULD keep the TCP connection open to allow for additional
               incoming DNS queries - provided it has enough resources to do so.
              </t>
              <t>
               The Forwarder receives the DNS answer. It processes the
               Authority Section and the Answer Section and places the
               information in its local cache. It ensures that no data
               is accepted into the cache without having proper DNSSEC
               validation. It MAY do so by looping over the entries in the
               Authority and Answer Sections. When an entry is validated
               for its cache, it is removed from the processing list. If
               an entry cannot be validated it is left in the process
               list. When the end of the list is reached, the list is
               processed again until either all entries are placed in
               the cache, or the remaining items cannot be placed in
               the cache due to lack of validation. Those entries are
               then discarded.
              </t>
              <t>
               If the cache contains a valid answer to the application's
               query, this answer is returned to the application via a
               regular DNS answer packet. This packet MUST NOT contain an
               CHAIN option. If no valid answer can be returned,
               normal error processing is done. For example, an NXDOMAIN
               or an empty Answer Section could be returned depending
               on the error condition.
              </t>
          </list></t>
         </section>
         <section anchor="example2" title="Out-of-path Query for example.com">
         <t>A Recursive Resolver receives a query for the A record for
         example.com. It includes the CHAIN option with
         the following parameters:
            <list style="symbols">
              <t>Option-code, set to [TBD1]</t>
              <t>Option-length, set to 0x00 0x0D</t>
              <t>The Closest Trust Point set to 'unrelated.ca.'</t>
            </list>
            As there is no chain that leads from "unrelated.ca." to
            "example.com", the Resolving Nameserver answers with an
            empty CHAIN specified using:
            <list style="symbols">
              <t>Option-code, set to [TBD1]</t>
              <t>Option-length, set to 0x00 0x00</t>
              <t>The Closest Trust Point is omitted (zero length)</t>
            </list>
            Note that the regular answer is still present just as it would be for a query
            that did not specify the CHAIN option.
          </t>
         </section>
         <section anchor="example3" title="Non-existent data">
         <t>
          A Recursive Resolver receives a query for the A record for
          "ipv6.toronto.redhat.ca". It includes the CHAIN option
          with the following parameters:
            <list style="symbols">
              <t>Option-code, set to [TBD1]</t>
              <t>Option-length, set to 0x00 0x03</t>
              <t>The Closest Trust Point set to 'ca.'</t>
            </list>
          Using regular UDP queries towards Authoritative Nameservers,
          it locates the NS RRset for "toronto.redhat.ca.". When querying
          for the A record it receives a reply with RCODE "NoError" and
          an empty Answer Section. The Authority Section contains NSEC3
          and RRSIG records proving there is no A RRtype for the QNAME
          "ipv6.toronto.redhat.ca".
          </t>
           <t>
            The Recursive Resolver constructs a DNS reply with the
            following CHAIN option parameters:
            <list style="symbols">
              <t>Option-code, set to [TBD1]</t>
              <t>Option-length, set to 0x00 0x00</t>
              <t>The Closest Trust Point is ommited (zero length)</t>
            </list>
           The RCODE is set to "NoError". The Authority Section is filled in with:
            <list style="symbols">
             <t>The DS RRset for "redhat.ca." plus RRSIGs</t>
             <t>The DNSKEY RRset for "redhat.ca." plus RRSIGs</t>
             <t>The NS RRset for "redhat.ca." plus RRSIGs (eg ns[01].redhat.ca)</t>
             <t>The A RRset for "ns0.redhat.ca." and "ns1.redhat.ca." plus RRSIGs</t>
             <t>The DS RRset for "toronto.redhat.ca." plus RRSIGs</t>
             <t>The NS RRset for "toronto.redhat.ca." plus RRSIGs (eg ns[01].toronto.redhat.ca)</t>
             <t>The DNSKEY RRset for "toronto.redhat.ca." plus RRSIGs</t>
             <t>The A RRset and/or AAAA RRset for "ns0.toronto.redhat.ca." and "ns1.toronto.redhat.ca." plus RRSIGs</t>
             <t>The NSEC record for "ipv6.toronto.redhat.ca." (proves what RRTYPEs do exist, does not include A)</t>
             <t>The NSEC record for "toronto.redhat.ca." (proves no wildcard exists)</t>
            </list>
           The Answer Section is empty. The RCode is set to NOERROR.
           </t>
         </section>
        </section>

        <section title="IANA Considerations" anchor="iana">
         <section title="EDNS0 option code for CHAIN" anchor="iana_opt">
            <t>IANA has assigned option code [TBD1] in the "DNS EDNS0 Option Codes
              (OPT)" registry to CHAIN.</t>
         </section>
        </section>

        <section title="Acknowledgements">
          <t>
          Andrew Sullivan pointed out that we do not need any new data
          formats to support DNS chains. Olafur Gudmundsson ensured the
          RRsets are returned in the proper Sections. Thanks to Tim Wicinski
          for his thorough review.
          </t>
        </section>

    </middle>

    <back>
        <references title='Normative References'>
            &rfc1034;
            &rfc1035;
            &rfc2119;
            &rfc4033;
            &rfc4034;
            &rfc4035;
            &rfc4786;
            &rfc6824;
            &rfc6891;
            &rfc6982;
            &rfc7646;

   <reference anchor='DNS-TERMINOLOGY'>
      <front>
      <title>DNS Terminology</title>
      <author initials='P' surname='Hoffman' fullname='P. Hoffman'>
      <organization>VPN Consortium</organization>
      </author>
      <author initials='A' surname='Sullivan' fullname='A. Sullivan'>
      <organization>Dyn</organization>
      </author>
      <author initials='K' surname='Fujiwara' fullname='K. Fujiwara'>
      <organization>JPRS</organization>
      </author>
      <date month='September' day='24' year='2015' />
      <abstract><t>
        The DNS is defined in literally dozens of different RFCs.  The
        terminology used in by implementers and developers of DNS protocols,
        and by operators of DNS systems, has sometimes changed in the decades
        since the DNS was first defined.  This document gives current
        definitions for many of the terms used in the DNS in a single
        document.
       </t></abstract>
      </front>
      <seriesInfo name='Internet-Draft' value='draft-ietf-dnsop-dns-terminology-05' />
      <format type='TXT' 
            target='https://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-ietf-dnsop-dns-terminology-05.txt' />
   </reference>

   <reference anchor='TCP-KEEPALIVE'>
      <front>
      <title>The edns-tcp-keepalive EDNS0 Option</title>
      <author initials='P' surname='Wouters' fullname='P. Wouters'>
      <organization>Red Hat</organization>
      </author>
      <author initials='J' surname='Abley' fullname='J. Abley'>
      <organization>Dyn, Inc.</organization>
      </author>
      <author initials='S' surname='Dickinson' fullname='S. Dickinson'>
      <organization>Sinodun</organization>
      </author>
      <author initials='R' surname='Bellis' fullname='R. Bellis'>
      <organization>ISC</organization>
      </author>
      <date month='September' day='30' year='2015' />
      <abstract><t>
       This document defines an EDNS0 option ("edns-tcp-keepalive") that
       allows DNS servers to signal a variable idle timeout.  This
       signalling facilitates a better balance of UDP and TCP transport
       between individual clients and servers, reducing the impact of
       problems associated with UDP transport and allowing the state
       associated with TCP transport to be managed effectively with minimal
       impact on the DNS transaction time.
       </t></abstract>
      </front>
      <seriesInfo name='Internet-Draft' value='draft-ietf-dnsop-edns-tcp-keepalive-03' />
      <format type='TXT' 
            target='https://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-ietf-dnsop-edns-tcp-keepalive-03.txt' />
   </reference>

   <reference anchor='EDNS-COOKIE'>
      <front>
      <title>Domain Name System (DNS) Cookies</title>
      <author initials='Donald' surname='Eastlake' fullname='Donald Eastlake'>
      <organization>Huawei</organization>
      </author>
      <date month='August' day='1' year='2015' />
      <abstract><t>
       DNS cookies are a lightweight DNS transaction security mechanism that
       provides limited protection to DNS servers and clients against a
       variety of increasingly common denial-of-service and amplification /
       forgery or cache poisoning attacks by off-path attackers. DNS Cookies
       are tolerant of NAT, NAT-PT, and anycast and can be incrementally
       deployed.
       </t></abstract>
      </front>
      <seriesInfo name='Internet-Draft' value='draft-ietf-dnsop-cookies' />
      <format type='TXT' 
            target='http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-dnsop-cookies-05.txt' />
   </reference>

        </references>

    </back>

</rfc>

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