Hi Paul,

I am wondering if there are any remaining concerns left for
the draft-ietf-homenet-naming-architecture-dhc-options document and
anything you would like us to address to lift your discuss.

Yours,
Daniel

On Mon, Oct 24, 2022 at 8:49 PM Daniel Migault <mglt.i...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Paul,
>
> Thanks for the follow-up. The reason we mentioned both RFC7858 and RFC9103
> is that the communication between the Homenet Naming Authority (HNA) and
> the Distribution Manager (DM) involves two different channels. The Control
> Channel that aims at configuring/managing the Synchronization Channel (i.e.
> the primary/secondary). The Control Channel uses DNS over TLS RFC7858 while
> the Synchronization Channel uses DNS Zone transfer over TLS 9103. The two
> channels always go in pairs. As both are using DNS over TLS we use the
> mnemonic 'DoT' for the Selected Transport. From what you are saying, it
> might be clearer to just mention 'TLS' for the Selected Transport as DoT
> might be really tightened to 7858. If you think this is clearer, I am happy
> to do so as well as with any name that you think is clearer.
>
> Yours,
> Daniel
>
> On Mon, Oct 24, 2022 at 7:20 PM Paul Wouters <paul.wout...@aiven.io>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Oct 23, 2022 at 10:45 PM Daniel Migault <mglt.i...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> While TLS gives you privacy,
>>>
>>>> the DNS Update cannot be done with only TLS (as far as I understand
>>>>>> it).
>>>>>
>>>>> please develop, but just in case, we do not use dns update to
>>>>> synchronize the zone. we use AFXR/IXRF over TLS define din XoT.
>>>>>
>>>>
>> This to me was not clear and a missed reference by me. While you name
>> RFC9103, the text states:
>>
>> DNS over TLS: indicates the support of DNS over TLS as described in
>>    [RFC7858 <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7858>] and [RFC9103 
>> <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc9103>].
>>
>> I should have looked more closely at the references, and I would have
>> realized 9103 is about DNS XFR over TLS. That document indeed explains
>> that XoT uses mutually authenticated TLS which provides the
>> authentication for the XFR streams.
>>
>> My suggestion:
>>
>> Current:
>>
>> DNS over TLS: indicates the support of DNS over TLS as described in
>>    [RFC7858 <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7858>] and [RFC9103 
>> <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc9103>].
>>
>> New:
>>
>> DNS Zone Transfer over TLS: indicates the support of DNS Zone Transfer
>> over TLS as described in [RFC9103]
>>
>>
>
>> The reference to RFC7858 is misleading - it only deals with stub to
>> recursive.
>>
>> If you think stub to recursive is in scope, it might be better to use two
>> DHCP options as these two things
>> seem to be very separate protocols (that just both happen to use DNS and
>> TLS)
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>>> So you are going against the RFC 5936 SHOULD.
>>>>
>>>> I even had to look this up because I didn't know you could do an AXFR
>>>> as a secondary
>>>> from a primary without DNS level authentication. Apparently you can,
>>>> but you SHOULD not.
>>>>
>>>> That is what we do. TLS provides enough security to replace TSIG /
>>> SIG(0).
>>>
>>
>>
>> Reading 9103 made that clear to me now, but the text in the document did
>> not. Perhaps that can be stated more clearly ?
>>
>> Paul
>>
>
>
> --
> Daniel Migault
> Ericsson
>


-- 
Daniel Migault
Ericsson
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