resolv.conf format for DNSSEC [was: DNSSEC support in stub-resolver]

[Petr Spacek]

On 13.6.2014 13:32, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos wrote:
> On Thu, 2014-06-12 at 09:08 -0700, Roland McGrath wrote:
>> Are there other systems with DNSSEC support built in?
>> What syntax do they use for resolv.conf?
>
> I'm not aware of any system with dnssec built-in on libc and the ones I
> know I don't think they distinguish between trusted and non-trusted name
> servers. As it is now applications use external libraries for the dnssec
> operations (e.g., libunbound, or APIs like [0,1]), and these libraries
> have their own configuration, rather than rely on resolv.conf.
>
> regards,
> Nikos
>
>
> [0].
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-hayatnagarkar-dnsext-validator-api-09
> [1]. http://www.vpnc.org/getdns-api/

I looked into it a bit it seems that neither from latest versions of (FreeBSD, 
OpenBSD, NetBSD) has support for DNSSEC as described in this thread.

 From those three, only OpenBSD supports RES_USE_DNSSEC flag but I didn't find 
any means for declaring name servers as trusted or untrusted.

It seems we are first so we can define a new configuration option/format for 
this purpose.

Also, Nikos found out [1] that sometimes VPNs and DHCP clients overwrite 
/etc/resolv.conf completely so any new option will be lost.

Is it a good enough reason to create new file, let's say /etc/resolv-sec.conf 
for the purpose of declaring name servers as trusted?

Obvious advantage is that we could re-use existing file-parsing code :-)

You can see proof-of-concept implementation for c-ares resolver library on:
https://github.com/bagder/c-ares/pull/16


I would be really glad if we could cooperate with other libraries to prevent 
us from being mutually incompatible.

So the most important question - is a new file acceptable? Do you have some 
better for it?

Have a nice day!

[1] http://c-ares.haxx.se/mail/c-ares-archive-2014-06/0006.shtml

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Petr Spacek  @  Red Hat