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IPv6 “ Stateless ” Resolver Autoconfiguration

IPv6 “ Stateless ” Resolver Autoconfiguration. Dave Thaler dthaler@microsoft.com. What DDDT recommended. Use “other stateful config” bit = OFF to enable the following Use IPv6 anycast to get server list, domain name, and search path Use DNS for the payload format

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IPv6 “ Stateless ” Resolver Autoconfiguration

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  1. IPv6 “Stateless”Resolver Autoconfiguration Dave Thaler dthaler@microsoft.com

  2. What DDDT recommended • Use “other stateful config” bit = OFF to enable the following • Use IPv6 anycast to get server list, domain name, and search path • Use DNS for the payload format • See if SRV records would work • If not, try TXT or new record type • Keep to only 1 message exchange

  3. Summary of Interim Meeting • Presented a strawman SRV record approach • Got general agreement on how queries work • can have per-site default information • can have subnet-specific overrides • Some people didn’t like creative use of SRV • Server list, domain name, and search path were encoded as targets with separate “dnsinfo” ports • Feedback: go ahead and try TXT or new record instead

  4. Current Status • Document split into two pieces: • DDDT discussion of solution space • draft-ietf-ipngwg-dns-discovery-analysis-00.txt • Type: Informational • Single solution details • draft-ietf-ipngwg-dns-discovery-02.txt • Type: Standards track • This version specifies TXT records

  5. TXT Record Basics • Summary: • Specified in RFC 1464 • <attributename>=<attributevalue> pairs • Works with existing DNS servers • Example: • host.widgets.com IN TXT “printer=lpr5”

  6. Specifying resolver config info • DNS Server list: • “dnsservers=<address>[,<address>]*” • Domain name: • “domainname=<domain>” • Search path: • “searchpath=<domain>[,<domain>]*”

  7. “Owner” strings for records • Basically what was discussed in Seattle • <subnet>.<well-known-suffix> • Allow site-wide defaults *._dnsinfo IN TXT “domainname=example.com” • Allow per-subnet overrides fec0_0000_0000_0001._dnsinfo IN TXT “domainname=foo.example.com”

  8. Autoconfiguration Process • Select an on-link prefix a) Any site local prefix (if present), then b) Any global prefix (if present), then c) Link-local prefix (last resort) • Convert to lower-case literal with ‘_’ rather than ‘:’, and no zero compression • Send a query for all TXT records using <subnet>.<well-known-suffix>

  9. Questions • Is this a reasonable approach? • What well-known-suffix? _dnsinfo.local.arpa? _dnsinfo? Other?

  10. Other open issues • Separate mDNS config from search path? • draft-guttman-dhc-mdns-enable-01.txt • “mdnsenable=…” • Separate stateful config bit in RA’s? • Could you use this to get DNS info, but DHCPv6 for yet other stateful config?

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