Re: Extending UPDATE to add/remove zones

Mark Andrews <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.dnsext
Message-ID <[email protected]>
In message <[email protected]>, Olafur Gudmundsson 
writes:
>
> On Oct 16, 2013, at 6:33 PM, Mark Andrews <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >
> > In message <[email protected]>, Jay
> Daley writes
> > :
> >> And what would your solution be to signifying that a zone is to be
> >> deleted?  Without one we have to abandon extending UPDATE and burn an
> >> opcode.
> >>
> >> Jay
> >
> > Add zone:
> > Zone: <zname> <class> NS
> > Update: <aname> <ttl> <class> SOA .....
> > 	<rest of initial zone>
> > Additional:
> > master TXT [port=value] [A=value] [AAAA=value] [key=name[:alg:secret]]
> [name=name]
> > key TXT [key=name[:algorithm:secret]]
> > port TXT [port=value]
> > allow-transfer TXT <TBD>
> > allow-query TXT <TBD>
> > allow-update TXT <TBD>
> >
> > Delete zone:
> > Zone: <zname> <class> NS
> > Update: <aname> <ttl> ANY SOA
> >
> > The use of type NS in the zone section indicates that this is a whole
> of zone
> > operation.
> >
> Mark  and Jay,
>
> why not burn RRTYPES for these commands ?
>
> To add a secondary (easier than primary)
> <name> ADDZONE <class> <master server> <port> <keying>
>
> To create a zone on primary
>  <name> NEWZONE <class>  <zone_source>         (Zone source exampe :
> file:///var/tmp/newzone/name)
> <name> ALLOW <transfer><port> <query> <update>   (This is like a TXT
> record but with structure in order and number of fields)
> <name> GRANT <seeting up update rules>
>
> (ALLOW can also be supplied to secondary)
>
> To Remove a zone
> <zone> DELZONE <class> <empty>
>
> We can keep going
> <zone> ADDFORWARD <forwarders list>
>
> <zone> DELFORWARD [empty]
> <zone> TAADD <new TA>
> <zone> TADEL <old TA>    (Avoiding using the name "DELTA")
>
> 	Olafur

I don't really care which way we go.  It is the concepts that I
want to nail down first.  We also want the scheme to be extensible.

Class could be used to signal the removal of a field which would
slow the burn rate.

Mark
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