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Date:      Mon, 19 Apr 2010 13:06:46 +0100
From:      Vincent Hoffman <vince@unsane.co.uk>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: DJB and root ns server dnssec signing
Message-ID:  <4BCC4756.9060109@unsane.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <n2rd36406631004190412k9fea6e71i2b61d411fd7948@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <n2rd36406631004190412k9fea6e71i2b61d411fd7948@mail.gmail.com>

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On 19/04/2010 12:12, krad wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Not strictly a freebsd question this but I'm feeling jittery about this as I
> cant afford it to go wrong.
>
> As you are probably aware the root zones are going to be signed soon. I run
> a number of heavily  used dns caches (~ 600-900 queries / sec) running djb
> dnscache. From what I can see dnscache doesn't support dnssec and edns and
> as these boxes are caches they will be querying the root ns a lot. They are
> also not behind a discreet firewall, so its not that dropping the large udp
> packets. I cant find any categoric answer to whether I will get an issue
> here and this makes me nervous. Can anyone offer any advice or pointers on
> this?
>
> $ dig @test.server +short rs.dns-oarc.net txt
> rst.x476.rs.dns-oarc.net.
> rst.x485.x476.rs.dns-oarc.net.
> rst.x490.x485.x476.rs.dns-oarc.net.
> "212.139.132.43 DNS reply size limit is at least 490"
> "212.139.132.43 lacks EDNS, defaults to 512"
> "Tested at 2010-04-19 10:42:04 UTC"
>
>
> I would upgrade the ns to bind, but historically there were issues with bind
> on these boxes so if i were to do this I would need to upgrade to 8-stable
> (they are a mixture of 4,5,6) where i can safely use threaded bind. All of
> these boxes are remote and heavily active so with the time constraints isn't
> that desirable.
>   
dns/unbound  (http://unbound.net/)  might be a better way to go than
bind if you just want a dnssec aware caching resolver.

Vince
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