| 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 |
| 2136 | Dynamic Updates in the Domain Name System (DNS UPDATE)P. Vixie, Ed., S. Thomson, Y. Rekhter, J. Bound | Proposed Standard | April 1997 |
| 2181 | Clarifications to the DNS SpecificationR. Elz, R. Bush | Proposed Standard | July 1997 |
| 2539 | Storage of Diffie-Hellman Keys in the Domain Name System (DNS)D. Eastlake 3rd | Proposed Standard | March 1999 |
| 2782 | A DNS RR for specifying the location of services (DNS SRV)A. Gulbrandsen, P. Vixie, L. Esibov | Proposed Standard | February 2000 |
| 2827 | Network Ingress Filtering: Defeating Denial of Service Attacks which employ IP Source Address SpoofingP. Ferguson, D. Senie | Best Current Practice | May 2000 |
| 2931 | DNS Request and Transaction Signatures ( SIG(0)s )D. Eastlake 3rd | Proposed Standard | September 2000 |
| 3007 | Secure Domain Name System (DNS) Dynamic UpdateB. Wellington | Proposed Standard | November 2000 |
| 3172 | Management Guidelines & Operational Requirements for the Address and Routing Parameter Area Domain ("arpa")G. Huston, Ed. | Best Current Practice | September 2001 |
| 3596 | DNS Extensions to Support IP Version 6S. Thomson, C. Huitema, V. Ksinant, M. Souissi | Internet Standard | October 2003 |
| 3927 | Dynamic Configuration of IPv4 Link-Local AddressesS. Cheshire, B. Aboba, E. Guttman | Proposed Standard | May 2005 |
| 4034 | Resource Records for the DNS Security ExtensionsR. Arends, R. Austein, M. Larson, D. Massey, S. Rose | Proposed Standard | March 2005 |
| 4035 | Protocol Modifications for the DNS Security ExtensionsR. Arends, R. Austein, M. Larson, D. Massey, S. Rose | Proposed Standard | March 2005 |
| 4861 | Neighbor Discovery for IP version 6 (IPv6)T. Narten, E. Nordmark, W. Simpson, H. Soliman | Draft Standard | September 2007 |
| 4862 | IPv6 Stateless Address AutoconfigurationS. Thomson, T. Narten, T. Jinmei | Draft Standard | September 2007 |
| 6105 | IPv6 Router Advertisement GuardE. Levy-Abegnoli, G. Van de Velde, C. Popoviciu, J. Mohacsi | Informational | February 2011 |
| 6303 | Locally Served DNS ZonesM. Andrews | Best Current Practice | July 2011 |
| 6335 | Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) Procedures for the Management of the Service Name and Transport Protocol Port Number RegistryM. Cotton, L. Eggert, J. Touch, M. Westerlund, S. Cheshire | Best Current Practice | August 2011 |
| 6760 | Requirements for a Protocol to Replace the AppleTalk Name Binding Protocol (NBP)S. Cheshire, M. Krochmal | Informational | February 2013 |
| 6761 | Special-Use Domain NamesS. Cheshire, M. Krochmal | Proposed Standard | February 2013 |
| 6762 | Multicast DNSS. Cheshire, M. Krochmal | Proposed Standard | February 2013 |
| 6763 | DNS-Based Service DiscoveryS. Cheshire, M. Krochmal | Proposed Standard | February 2013 |
| 6887 | Port Control Protocol (PCP)D. Wing, Ed., S. Cheshire, M. Boucadair, R. Penno, P. Selkirk | Proposed Standard | April 2013 |
| 7084 | Basic Requirements for IPv6 Customer Edge RoutersH. Singh, W. Beebee, C. Donley, B. Stark | Informational | November 2013 |
| 7228 | Terminology for Constrained-Node NetworksC. Bormann, M. Ersue, A. Keranen | Informational | May 2014 |
| 7413 | TCP Fast OpenY. Cheng, J. Chu, S. Radhakrishnan, A. Jain | Experimental | December 2014 |
| 7723 | Port Control Protocol (PCP) Anycast AddressesS. Kiesel, R. Penno | Proposed Standard | January 2016 |
| 7841 | RFC Streams, Headers, and BoilerplatesJ. Halpern, Ed., L. Daigle, Ed., O. Kolkman, Ed. | Informational | May 2016 |
| 7858 | Specification for DNS over Transport Layer Security (TLS)Z. Hu, L. Zhu, J. Heidemann, A. Mankin, D. Wessels, P. Hoffman | Proposed Standard | May 2016 |
| 8085 | UDP Usage GuidelinesL. Eggert, G. Fairhurst, G. Shepherd | Best Current Practice | March 2017 |
| 8126 | Guidelines for Writing an IANA Considerations Section in RFCsM. Cotton, B. Leiba, T. Narten | Best Current Practice | June 2017 |
| 8174 | Ambiguity of Uppercase vs Lowercase in RFC 2119 Key WordsB. Leiba | Best Current Practice | May 2017 |
| 8375 | Special-Use Domain 'home.arpa.'P. Pfister, T. Lemon | Proposed Standard | May 2018 |
| 8415 | Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 (DHCPv6)T. Mrugalski, M. Siodelski, B. Volz, A. Yourtchenko, M. Richardson, S. Jiang, T. Lemon, T. Winters · obsoleted by RFC 9915 | Proposed Standard | November 2018 |
| 8520 | Manufacturer Usage Description SpecificationE. Lear, R. Droms, D. Romascanu | Proposed Standard | March 2019 |
| 8624 | Algorithm Implementation Requirements and Usage Guidance for DNSSECP. Wouters, O. Sury · obsoleted by RFC 9904 | Proposed Standard | June 2019 |
| 8765 | DNS Push NotificationsT. Pusateri, S. Cheshire | Proposed Standard | June 2020 |
| 8766 | Discovery Proxy for Multicast DNS-Based Service DiscoveryS. Cheshire | Proposed Standard | June 2020 |
| 8945 | Secret Key Transaction Authentication for DNS (TSIG)F. Dupont, S. Morris, P. Vixie, D. Eastlake 3rd, O. Gudmundsson, B. Wellington | Internet Standard | November 2020 |
| 9364 | DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC)P. Hoffman | Best Current Practice | February 2023 |
| 9664 | An EDNS(0) Option to Negotiate Leases on DNS UpdatesS. Cheshire, T. Lemon | Proposed Standard | June 2025 |