The technical operation of the internet is governed by numerous documents.
Each governing document is known as a Request for Comment(RFC)
These documents are published under the auspices of the Internet Engineering Task Force(IETF).
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They are stored here as reference documents for your convenience.
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The most important of the dns rfc documents are:
RFC 1034 - DOMAIN NAMES - CONCEPTS AND FACILITIES
This RFC is an introduction to the Domain Name System (DNS), and omits
many details which can be found in a companion RFC, "Domain Names -
Implementation and Specification" [RFC-1035]. That RFC assumes that the
reader is familiar with the concepts discussed in this memo.
RFC 1035 - DOMAIN NAMES - IMPLEMENTATION AND SPECIFICATION
This RFC describes the details of the domain system and protocol, and
assumes that the reader is familiar with the concepts discussed in a
companion RFC, "Domain Names - Concepts and Facilities" [RFC-1034].
RFC 2181 - CLARIFICATIONS TO THE DNS SPECIFICATION
This document considers some areas that have been identified as
problems with the specification of the Domain Name System, and
proposes remedies for the defects identified. Eight separate issues
are considered.
RFC 2317 - CLASSLESS IN-ADDR.ARPA DELEGATION
This document describes a way to do IN-ADDR.ARPA delegation on non-
octet boundaries for address spaces covering fewer than 256
addresses. The proposed method should thus remove one of the
objections to subnet on non-octet boundaries but perhaps more
significantly, make it possible to assign IP address space in smaller
chunks than 24-bit prefixes, without losing the ability to delegate
authority for the corresponding IN-ADDR.ARPA mappings. The proposed
method is fully compatible with the original DNS lookup mechanisms
specified in [1], i.e. there is no need to modify the lookup
algorithm used, and there should be no need to modify any software
which does DNS lookups.
RFC 3172 - MANAGEMENT GUIDELINES & OPERATIONAL REQUIREMENTS FOR THE ADDRESS AND ROUTING PARAMETER AREA DOMAIN ("ARPA")
This memo describes the management and operational requirements for
the address and routing parameter area ("arpa") domain. The "arpa"
domain is used to support a class of infrastructural identifier
spaces, providing a distributed database that translates elements of
a structured name space derived from a protocol family to service
names. The efficient and reliable operation of this DNS space is
essential to the integrity of operation of various services within
the Internet. The Internet Architecture Board (IAB) has the
responsibility, in cooperation with the Internet Corporation for
Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), to manage the "arpa" domain.
This document describes the principles used by the IAB in undertaking
this role.
RFC 3568 - KNOWN CONTENT NETWORK (CN) REQUEST-ROUTING MECHANISMS
This document presents a summary of Request-Routing techniques that
are used to direct client requests to surrogates based on various
policies and a possible set of metrics. The document covers
techniques that were commonly used in the industry on or before
December 2000. In this memo, the term Request-Routing represents
techniques that is commonly called content routing or content
redirection. In principle, Request-Routing techniques can be
classified under: DNS Request-Routing, Transport-layer
Request-Routing, and Application-layer Request-Routing.
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