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INFORMATIONAL

Obsoletes:

RFC 2541

Obsoleted by:

RFC 6781

Authors:

O. Kolkman
R. Gieben

Stream:

IETF

Source:

dnsop (ops)

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DOI:  https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC4641

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Abstract

This document describes a set of practices for operating the DNS withsecurity extensions (DNSSEC). The target audience is zoneadministrators deploying DNSSEC.

The document discusses operational aspects of using keys andsignatures in the DNS. It discusses issues of key generation, keystorage, signature generation, key rollover, and related policies.

This document obsoletes RFC 2541, as it covers more operationalground and gives more up-to-date requirements with respect to keysizes and the new DNSSEC specification. This memo provides information for the Internet community.

For the definition ofStatus,seeRFC 2026.

For the definition ofStream, seeRFC 8729.