rfc-7766

DNS Transport over TCP - Implementation Requirements

J. Dickinson, S. Dickinson, R. Bellis, A. Mankin, D. Wessels

date2016-03 streamIETF areaops wgdnsop statusPROPOSED STANDARD pages19 canonicalhttps://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7766 doi10.17487/RFC7766

This document specifies the requirement for support of TCP as a transport protocol for DNS implementations and provides guidelines towards DNS-over-TCP performance on par with that of DNS-over-UDP. This document obsoletes RFC 5966 and therefore updates RFC 1035 and RFC 1123.

obsoletes

rfc-5966 — DNS Transport over TCP - Implementation Requirements

updated by

rfc-8490 — DNS Stateful Operations
rfc-9103 — DNS Zone Transfer over TLS

updates

rfc-1035 — Domain names - implementation and specification
rfc-1123 — Requirements for Internet Hosts - Application and Support