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Re: [PATCH] Silence resolver logging for DNAME records when DNSSEC is enabled
- From: "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos at redhat dot com>
- To: Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>, Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh at redhat dot com>, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2015 10:41:06 -0500
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Silence resolver logging for DNAME records when DNSSEC is enabled
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On 02/23/2015 10:36 AM, Florian Weimer wrote:
>> - Should not cause NSEC-aware resolvers to mark
>> NSEC3-aware systems from being marked as invalid
>> signatures.
>
> In DNSSEC terminology, DNSSECbis-signed zones should be marked as
> Insecure (unsigned) by DNSSEC-gold (the original standard)-aware
> resolvers. I.e., they would still return data to clients, but wouldn't
> indicate it is signed. The other implementation choice would have been
> claim there has been an attack and not return any data. (In practice,
> there were bugs here, same thing happened with NSEC3.)
OK.
>> * The semantics of the DO bit remain roughly the same.
>
> That depends what the semantics are. If “DO” means “DNSSEC OK”, then
> the semantics did change significantly. If it means “you can send along
> random garbage, and I will cope”, semantics remained unchanged.
Why? The original RFC says simply that the DO bit means "can accept DNSSEC
security RRs" but says nothing about needing to understand them.
>> * The DO bit can continue to be used as expected.
>
> Yes, this mostly worked. The interop failure (Insecure vs Bogus) was
> not caused by DO interpretation conflicts.
Right.
Cheers,
Carlos.