[Dnssec-deployment] Bind 9 validation failure on kocarkydavidek.cz (NSEC3 related)

Mark Andrews marka at isc.org
Wed Oct 19 09:14:53 EDT 2011


In message <4E9EB3EF.9050701 at nlnetlabs.nl>, Matthijs Mekking writes:
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> On 10/18/2011 06:07 PM, Mark Andrews wrote:
> > Named is looking for a closest encloser NSEC3 record and not finding
> > it.  I have a patch to get the closest encloser from the RRSIG of
> > the A record and with that the response validates.  The patch still
> > needs to be reviewed.
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> > Mark
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> It is not only at the validator, Bind9 also sends too much NSEC3 records
> in the case of a wildcard answer response.
> 
> See http://www.nlnetlabs.nl/bugs-script/show_bug.cgi?id=390
> 
> Best regards,
>   Matthijs

While I agree it shouldn't be emitted it should cause no problems
for other validators.  We were already discussing when we should
stop emitting it.  At a minimum we need to stop emitting it
to check that we can validate a response without it.

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