Dnsopers,
As suggested by a few people, we added a section to our draft evaluating
how we stand against RFC 3197. For your convenience, here it is
verbatim. We would of course appreciate further feedback.
Thanks,
Simon
1.2. On RFC 3197
A previous attempt at defining a MIB for DNS servers failed.
[RFC3197] analyses the causes of that failure and identifies a few
lessons to be learned. This section compares those lessons against
the proposal contained in this draft.
o Define a clear set of goals before writing any MIB extensions.
Know who the constituency is and make sure that what you write
solves their problem.
* There is a single goal: expose usage statistics (i.e.,
counters) over SNMP.
* Constituency: The problem has been identified by TLD operators
trying to obtain usage statistics from anycast nodes. One TLD
operator having this problem is co-authoring this draft.
o Keep the MIB extensions short, and don't add variables just
because somebody in the WG thinks they'd be a cool thing to
measure.
* The proposed MIB is short (subjectively).
* The stats exposed by the MIB are those already available in a
popular DNS server used by many TLDs.
o If some portion of the task seems to be very hard to do within the
SMI, that's a strong hint that SNMP is not the right tool for
whatever it is that you're trying to do.
* Writing this MIB was easy and straightforward.
o If the entire project is taking too long, perhaps that's a hint
too.
* From a technical point of view, this could be wrapped up
quickly.
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: New Version Notification for draft-perreault-dnsop-stats-mib-01.txt
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2012 08:46:55 -0700
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
CC: [email protected], [email protected]
A new version of I-D, draft-perreault-dnsop-stats-mib-01.txt
has been successfully submitted by Simon Perreault and posted to the
IETF repository.
Filename: draft-perreault-dnsop-stats-mib
Revision: 01
Title: DNS Server Statistics Management Information Base (MIB)
Creation date: 2012-07-16
WG ID: Individual Submission
Number of pages: 18
URL:
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-perreault-dnsop-stats-mib-01.txt
Status:
http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-perreault-dnsop-stats-mib
Htmlized:
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-perreault-dnsop-stats-mib-01
Diff:
http://tools.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-perreault-dnsop-stats-mib-01
Abstract:
This memo defines a portion of the Management Information Base (MIB)
for monitoring statistics of DNS servers.
The IETF Secretariat
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