Hi Kings,

But DNS is used for management. You can use it, for example, for URL filtering, 
certificate enrollment / verification, etc...
And you might want to consider to let DNS traffic leave out of the management 
interface (thus out-of-band certificate enrollment,  RBL checks, url filtering, 
etc). And that would mean that dns would be part of the management plane. 

For me, the control plane basically is the CPU in the router that talks with 
the data plane and allows the setting of hardware entries in the data plane and 
handle all traffic that can't be handled in the data-plane. 
This includes the arp entries (arp is then placed in the data plane), 
application layer inspection that can't be handled in hardware, changes of 
routing entries, etc..

The management plane for me is mostly the ways to configure traffic and how the 
router handles traffic and applications. And then in general all traffic that 
is nog immediately part of routing / switching. (the handling of routing 
protocols is of course on the control plane, as it comes in from all 
interfaces), but you might want to restrict management traffic

HTH

Pieter-Jan

On 9 nov 2010, at 06:33, Kingsley Charles wrote:

> Tyson, DNS is not required to build the network hence I agree it's not part 
> of control plane. 
> 
> DNS is a protocol that builds the Name to IP address table. If CDP is part of 
> the control plane which doesn't help much to operate the network then I feel 
> DNS can also be part of control plane :-)
>  
> 
> 
> 
> With regards
> Kings
> 
> On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 10:07 AM, Tyson Scott <[email protected]> wrote:
> Is DNS necessary, from a router perspective, for the network to operate?
> 
>  
> Control plane is only network services that "glue" the network together.
> 
>  
> Routing protocols,
> 
>  
> Regards,
> 
>  
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> From: Kingsley Charles [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: Monday, November 08, 2010 11:06 PM
> To: Tyson Scott
> Cc: Eugene Pefti; [email protected]
> 
> 
> Subject: Re: [OSL | CCIE_Security] DNS part of which plane
> 
>  
> Hi Tyson
> 
> Can you please let me know the reason for having DNS in management plane.
> How does the DNS help to manage the deivce? 
> 
> I am not getting the picture.
> 
> With regards
> Kings
> 
> On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 8:08 AM, Tyson Scott <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> DNS is management plane.  It is not a service that glues the L3 network 
> together.
> 
>  
> Regards,
> 
>  
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> From: [email protected] 
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Eugene Pefti
> Sent: Sunday, November 07, 2010 3:23 AM
> To: 'Kingsley Charles'
> 
> 
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [OSL | CCIE_Security] DNS part of which plane
> 
>  
> That’s right. We see all ports that open on the router that belongs to the 
> so-called host subinterface of Control Plane. What are debating about then ? 
> ;)
> 
> I didn’t find that DNS belongs to management plane in Cisco’s official 
> documentation. Perhaps Yusuf in his flash cards is not right as the list of 
> protocols mentioned in the Figure for this question is too big. Unless I 
> confuse entirely the concept of Control and Management Plane
> 
>  
> From: Kingsley Charles [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: Sunday, November 07, 2010 12:56 AM
> To: Eugene Pefti
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [OSL | CCIE_Security] DNS part of which plane
> 
>  
> Eugene, the O/P is self explanatory. The show control-plane host open shows 
> all the port that the router is listening to. The O/P has port 22 and 23 
> which is ssh and telnet respectively. Does that mean telnet and ssh are 
> control plane protocols? 
> 
> The O/P includes management, control and service protocol port numbers. 
> ISAKMP is in service plane right, you can 500 and 4500 in the O/P too.
> 
> 
> With regards
> Kings
> 
> On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 1:13 PM, Eugene Pefti <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> It’s a good point, Kings.
> 
> Our customer uses their routers as DNS servers at their remote offices and 
> the traffic destined to the router itself can be falling under the management 
> plane.
> 
> I thought that you control access to the router via a regular ACL which I 
> still do by applying it to different VLAN interfaces.
> 
> But when I query the router to show me open ports under the control plane I 
> see DNS on the list as well. Hence DNS traffic is from control-plane ;)
> 
>  
> Router_LAB#show control-plane host open
> 
> Active internet connections (servers and established)
> 
> Prot               Local Address             Foreign Address                  
> Service    State
> 
>  tcp                        *:22                         *:0               
> SSH-Server   LISTEN
> 
>  tcp                        *:23                         *:0                  
>  Telnet   LISTEN
> 
>  tcp                        *:53                         *:0               
> DNS Server   LISTEN
> 
>  udp                        *:53                         *:0               
> DNS Server   LISTEN
> 
>  udp                        *:67                         *:0            DHCPD 
> Receive   LISTEN
> 
>  udp                      *:2887                         *:0                  
>     DDP   LISTEN
> 
>  udp                       *:123                         *:0                  
>     NTP   LISTEN
> 
>  udp                      *:4500                         *:0                  
>  ISAKMP   LISTEN
> 
>  udp                       *:500                         *:0                  
>  ISAKMP   LISTEN
> 
>  
> From: [email protected] 
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kingsley 
> Charles
> Sent: Saturday, November 06, 2010 11:52 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [OSL | CCIE_Security] DNS part of which plane
> 
>  
> Hi all
> 
> As per the Yusuf flash cards, DNS is part of the Management plane. 
> 
> Management plane is used to manage the device and control plane is used to 
> dynamically build the network. 
> 
> The DNS builds the network by resolving the FQDN to IP address. 
> 
> I think, DNS should be in the control plane list. 
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> With regards
> Kings
> 
>  
>  
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