Internet DRAFT - draft-ietf-ntp-dhcpv6-ntp-opt
draft-ietf-ntp-dhcpv6-ntp-opt
Network Working Group R. Gayraud
Internet-Draft
Intended status: Standards Track B. Lourdelet
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January 7, 2010
Network Time Protocol (NTP) Server Option for DHCPv6
draft-ietf-ntp-dhcpv6-ntp-opt-06.txt
Abstract
The NTP Server Option for Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for
IPv6 (DHCPv6) provides NTP (Network Time Protocol version 4) Server
location information to DHCPv6 hosts.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2. Requirements notation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3. Related Work and Usage Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
4. NTP Server Option for DHCPv6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
4.1. NTP Server Address Suboption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
4.2. NTP Multicast Address Suboption . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
4.3. NTP Server FQDN Suboption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
5. Appearance of this Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
6. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
7. RFC 4075 Deprecation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
8. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
9. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
9.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
9.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
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1. Introduction
This document defines a DHCPv6 option and associated suboptions to
provide Network Time Protocol version 4 [draft-ntpv4] or greater
Server location information to DHCPv6 hosts.
2. Requirements notation
The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
"SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
document are to be interpreted as described in [RFC2119].
3. Related Work and Usage Model
The NTP service is publicly offered on the Internet by a number of
organizations. Those Servers can be used but should not be abused,
so any method which is tasked to disseminate locations of NTP Servers
must act responsibly in a manner that does not lead to public Server
overloading. When using DHCPv6 to offer NTP Server location, and if
there is a need to distribute a host with a hardcoded configuration,
this configuration MUST NOT include Server location that is not part
of the organization that distributes this device. Typical usage of
this option is to specify an NTP Server that is part of the
organization that operates the DHCPv6 Server.
The location of the NTP service, like any other Internet service, can
be specified by an IP address or a Fully Qualified Domain Name
(FQDN). By design, DHCP offers information to multiple devices and
is prone to amplification of mistakes, so great care must be taken to
define its configuration. Specification of the NTP service by FQDN
offers a level of indirection that works as a possible mitigation
tool in case of misconfiguration. DNS can be used to redirect
misconfigured clients to an IPv6 address that is not configured on
any host instead of having to change the address of the NTP Server
itself.
While the NTP specification defines a comprehensive set of
configuration parameters, modification of those parameters is best
left to the decision of the client itself. The DHCPv6 option for NTP
is therefore restricted to Server location.
4. NTP Server Option for DHCPv6
This option serves as a container for Server location information
related to one NTP Server or Simple Network Time Protocol (SNTP)
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[RFC4330] Server. This option can appear multiple times in a DHCPv6
message. Each instance of this option is to be considered by the NTP
client or SNTP client as a Server to include in its configuration.
The option itself does not contain any value. Instead, it contains
one or several suboptions that carry NTP Server or SNTP Server Server
location. This option MUST include one, and only one, time source
suboption. The currently defined time source suboptions are:
NTP_OPTION_SRV_ADDR, NTP_OPTION_SRV_MC_ADDR, NTP_OPTION_SRV_FQDN. It
carries the NTP Server or SNTP Server location, as a unicast or
multicast IPv6 address or as an NTP Server or SNTP Server FQDN. More
time source suboptions may be defined in the future. While the FQDN
option offers the most deployment flexibility, resiliency as well as
security, the IP address options are defined to cover cases where a
DNS dependancy is not desirable.
If the NTP Server or SNTP Server location is an IPv6 multicast
address, the client SHOULD use this address as an NTP multicast group
address and listen to messages sent to this group in order to
synchronize its clock.
The format of the NTP Server Option is:
0 1 2 3
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| OPTION_NTP_SERVER | option-len |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| suboption-1 |
: :
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| suboption-2 |
: :
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
: :
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| suboption-n |
: :
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
option-code: OPTION_NTP_SERVER (TBD_IANA),
option-len: Total length of the included suboptions.
This document does not define any priority relationship between the
client's embedded configuration (if any) and the NTP or SNTP Servers
discovered via this option. In particular, the client is allowed to
simultaneously use its own configured NTP Servers or SNTP Servers and
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the Servers discovered via DHCP.
4.1. NTP Server Address Suboption
This suboption is intended to appear inside the OPTION_NTP_SERVER
option. It specifies the IPv6 unicast address of an NTP Server or
SNTP Server available to the client.
The format of the NTP Server Address Suboption is:
0 1 2 3
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| NTP_SUBOPTION_SRV_ADDR | suboption-len = 16 |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| |
| |
| IPv6 address of NTP Server |
| |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
IPv6 address of the NTP Server: An IPv6 address,
suboption-code: NTP_SUBOPTION_SRV_ADDR (1),
suboption-len: 16.
4.2. NTP Multicast Address Suboption
This suboption is intended to appear inside the OPTION_NTP_SERVER
option. It specifies the IPv6 address of the IPv6 multicast group
address used by NTP on the local network.
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The format of the NTP Multicast Address Suboption is:
0 1 2 3
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| NTP_SUBOPTION_MC_ADDR | suboption-len = 16 |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| |
| |
| Multicast IPv6 address |
| |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Multicast IPv6 address: An IPv6 address,
suboption-code: NTP_SUBOPTION_MC_ADDR (2),
suboption-len: 16.
4.3. NTP Server FQDN Suboption
This suboption is intended to appear inside the OPTION_NTP_SERVER
option. It specifies the FQDN of an NTP Server or SNTP Server
available to the client.
The format of the NTP Server FQDN Suboption is:
0 1 2 3
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| NTP_SUBOPTION_SRV_FQDN | suboption-len |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| |
| FQDN of NTP Server |
: :
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
suboption-code: NTP_SUBOPTION_SRV_FQDN (3),
suboption-len: Length of the included FQDN field,
FQDN: Fully Qualified Domain Name of the NTP Server or SNTP Server.
This field MUST be encoded as described in [RFC3315],
section 8. Internationalized Domain Name are not allowed
in this field.
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5. Appearance of this Option
The OPTION_NTP_SERVER option can appear multiple times in a DHCPv6
message. The order in which these options appear is not significant.
The client uses its usual algorithms to determine which Server(s) or
multicast group(s) should be prefered to synchronize its clock.
The OPTION_NTP_SERVER option MUST NOT appear in messages other than
the following: Solicit, Advertise, Request, Renew, Rebind,
Information-Request, and Reply. If this option appears in messages
other than those specified above, the receiver MUST ignore it.
The option number for this option MAY appear in the "Option Request"
option [RFC3315] in the following messages: Solicit, Request, Renew,
Rebind, Information-Request, and Reconfigure. If this option number
appears in the "Option Request" option in messages other than those
specified above, the receiver SHOULD ignore it.
6. Security Considerations
This option could be used by an intruder to advertise the address of
a malicious NTP Server or SNTP Server and adversely affect the clock
of clients on the network. The consequences of such an attack can be
critical, because many security protocols depend on time
synchronization to run their algorithms. As an example, an attacker
could break connectivity between SEND-enabled nodes [RFC3971], simply
by affecting the clock on these nodes.
To prevent these attacks, it is strongly advisable to secure the use
of this option either by:
- using the NTPv4 Autokey public key authentication, as defined
in [draft-autokey] or,
- using authenticated DHCP as described in [RFC3315] section 21.
7. RFC 4075 Deprecation
[RFC4075] (SNTP Configuration Option for DHCPv6) provides some degree
of automatic time Server configuration for IPv6, as it specifies how
to transmit SNTP [RFC4330] Servers addresses through DHCPv6. However
this approach is not suitable for all NTP deployments. It is not an
extensible mechanism and introduces some semantic confusion throught
the use of the "SNTP" acronym. Additionally the approach of only
offering IPv6 addresses to specify Server location does not meet NTP
requirements that make use of a FQDN (Fully Qualified Domain Name) as
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well. For all the abovementioned reasons, this document makes
[RFC4075] deprecated.
8. IANA Considerations
When this document is published, the IANA is requested to assign an
option code from the "DHCPv6 Options Codes" registry for
OPTION_NTP_SERVER.
IANA is required to maintain a new number space of NTP time source
suboptions, located in the BOOTP-DHCP Parameters Registry. The
initial suboptions are described in section 4 of this document. IANA
assigns future NTP time source suboptions with a "IETF Consensus"
policy as described in [RFC5226]. Future proposed suboptions are to
be referenced symbolically in the Internet-Drafts that describe them,
and shall be assigned numeric codes by IANA when approved for
publication as an RFC.
9. References
9.1. Normative References
[RFC3315] Droms, R., Bound, J., Volz, B., Lemon, T., Perkins, C.,
and M. Carney, "Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for
IPv6 (DHCPv6)", RFC 3315, July 2003.
[RFC5226] Narten, T. and H. Alvestrand, "Guidelines for Writing an
IANA Considerations Section in RFCs", BCP 26, RFC 5226,
May 2008.
[draft-ntpv4]
Burbank, J., Kasch, W., Martin, J., and D. Mills, "Network
Time Protocol Version 4 Protocol And Algorithms
Specification", draft-ietf-ntp-ntpv4-proto-11 (work in
progress), September 2008.
[draft-autokey]
Haberman, B. and D. Mills, "Network Time Protocol Version
4 Autokey Specification", draft-ietf-ntp-autokey-06 (work
in progress), July 2009.
9.2. Informative References
[RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997.
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[RFC3971] Arkko, J., Kempf, J., Zill, B., and P. Nikander, "SEcure
Neighbor Discovery (SEND)", RFC 3971, March 2005.
[RFC4075] Kalusivalingam, V., "Simple Network Time Protocol (SNTP)
Configuration Option for DHCPv6", RFC 4075, May 2005.
[RFC4330] Mills, D., "Simple Network Time Protocol (SNTP) Version 4
for IPv4, IPv6 and OSI", RFC 4330, January 2006.
Authors' Addresses
Richard Gayraud
Email: richard.gayraud@free.fr
Benoit Lourdelet
Cisco Systems, Inc.
Village ent. GreenSide, Bat T3,
400, Av de Roumanille,
06410 BIOT - Sophia-Antipolis Cedex
France
Phone: +33 4 97 23 26 23
Email: blourdel@cisco.com
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