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DNS Resolver MIB Extensions
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Network Working Group R. Austein
Request for Comments: 1612 Epilogue Technology Corporation
Category: Standards Track J. Saperia
Digital Equipment Corporation
May 1994
DNS Resolver MIB Extensions
Status of this Memo
This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the
Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for
improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet
Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state
and status of this protocol. Distribution of this memo is unlimited.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction .............................................. 1
2. The SNMPv2 Network Management Framework ................... 2
2.1 Object Definitions ....................................... 2
3. Overview .................................................. 2
3.1 Resolvers ................................................ 3
3.2 Name Servers ............................................. 3
3.3 Selected Objects ......................................... 4
3.4 Textual Conventions ...................................... 4
4. Definitions ............................................... 5
5. Acknowledgements .......................................... 30
6. References ................................................ 30
7. Security Considerations ................................... 32
8. Authors' Addresses ........................................ 32
1. Introduction
This memo defines a portion of the Management Information Base (MIB)
for use with network management protocols in the Internet community.
In particular, it describes a set of extensions which instrument DNS
resolver functions. This memo was produced by the DNS working group.
With the adoption of the Internet-standard Network Management
Framework [4,5,6,7], and with a large number of vendor
implementations of these standards in commercially available
products, it became possible to provide a higher level of effective
network management in TCP/IP-based internets than was previously
available. With the growth in the use of these standards, it has
become possible to consider the management of other elements of the
infrastructure beyond the basic TCP/IP protocols. A key element of
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