Requirements for Management of Name Servers for the DNS
RFC 6168, “Requirements for Management of Name Servers for the DNS”, is an Informational document published in May 2011 by W. Hardaker. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.
Abstract
Management of name servers for the Domain Name System (DNS) has traditionally been done using vendor-specific monitoring, configuration, and control methods. Although some service monitoring platforms can test the functionality of the DNS itself, there is not an interoperable way to manage (monitor, control, and configure) the internal aspects of a name server itself.
This document discusses the requirements of a management system for name servers and can be used as a shopping list of needed features for such a system. This document is not an Internet Standards Track specification; it is published for informational purposes.
What “Informational” means
Published for the general information of the community. It does not define an IETF standard and carries no standards-track status.
The canonical text of RFC 6168 is hosted at rfc-editor.org. Available in TXT,HTML.
- RFC 6167 URI Scheme for Java Message Service 1.0
- RFC 6169 Security Concerns with IP Tunneling
- RFC 6166 A Registry for PIM Message Types
- RFC 6170 Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure -- Certificate Image
- RFC 6165 Extensions to IS-IS for Layer-2 Systems
- RFC 6171 The Lightweight Directory Access Protocol Don't Use Copy Control
- RFC 6164 Using 127-Bit IPv6 Prefixes on Inter-Router Links
- RFC 6172 Deprecation of the Internet Fibre Channel Protocol Address Translation Mode