CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_ Reported by Michael Reilly/DEC DNS Minutes 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. The mailing list is dns-wg@nsl.dec.com. Add/drop requests are to be sent to dns-wg-request@nsl.dec.com. 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: 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. 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. 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. o Investigate and document the security (or lack of ) in the current DNS and in common implementations (for example, BIND). 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. 1 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. 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. 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. Attendees 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 2