| 1001 | Protocol standard for a NetBIOS service on a TCP/UDP transport: Concepts and methodsNetBIOS Working Group in the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Internet Activities Board, End-to-End Services Task Force | Internet Standard | March 1987 |
| 1035 | Domain names - implementation and specificationP. Mockapetris | Internet Standard | November 1987 |
| 1536 | Common DNS Implementation Errors and Suggested FixesA. Kumar, J. Postel, C. Neuman, P. Danzig, S. Miller | Informational | October 1993 |
| 2119 | Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement LevelsS. Bradner | Best Current Practice | March 1997 |
| 2131 | Dynamic Host Configuration ProtocolR. Droms | Draft Standard | March 1997 |
| 2181 | Clarifications to the DNS SpecificationR. Elz, R. Bush | Proposed Standard | July 1997 |
| 2308 | Negative Caching of DNS Queries (DNS NCACHE)M. Andrews | Proposed Standard | March 1998 |
| 2365 | Administratively Scoped IP MulticastD. Meyer | Best Current Practice | July 1998 |
| 2671 | Extension Mechanisms for DNS (EDNS0)P. Vixie · obsoleted by RFC 6891 | Proposed Standard | August 1999 |
| 2845 | Secret Key Transaction Authentication for DNS (TSIG)P. Vixie, O. Gudmundsson, D. Eastlake 3rd, B. Wellington · obsoleted by RFC 8945 | Proposed Standard | May 2000 |
| 2931 | DNS Request and Transaction Signatures ( SIG(0)s )D. Eastlake 3rd | Proposed Standard | September 2000 |
| 2937 | The Name Service Search Option for DHCPC. Smith | Proposed Standard | September 2000 |
| 3315 | Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 (DHCPv6)R. Droms, Ed., J. Bound, B. Volz, T. Lemon, C. Perkins, M. Carney · obsoleted by RFC 8415 | Proposed Standard | July 2003 |
| 3493 | Basic Socket Interface Extensions for IPv6R. Gilligan, S. Thomson, J. Bound, J. McCann, W. Stevens | Informational | March 2003 |
| 3542 | Advanced Sockets Application Program Interface (API) for IPv6W. Stevens, M. Thomas, E. Nordmark, T. Jinmei | Informational | June 2003 |
| 3833 | Threat Analysis of the Domain Name System (DNS)D. Atkins, R. Austein | Informational | August 2004 |
| 3927 | Dynamic Configuration of IPv4 Link-Local AddressesS. Cheshire, B. Aboba, E. Guttman | Proposed Standard | May 2005 |
| 4033 | DNS Security Introduction and RequirementsR. Arends, R. Austein, M. Larson, D. Massey, S. Rose | Proposed Standard | March 2005 |
| 4086 | Randomness Requirements for SecurityD. Eastlake 3rd, J. Schiller, S. Crocker | Best Current Practice | June 2005 |
| 4291 | IP Version 6 Addressing ArchitectureR. Hinden, S. Deering | Draft Standard | February 2006 |