[Cerowrt-devel] Fwd: [Dnsmasq-discuss] dnssec-check-unsigned breaks linux.conf.au

[Dave Taht]

if I haven't already said this, anybody using dnssec in
cerowrt-3.10.50-1 should just disable it.

The number of corner cases and bugs found and fixed in the last few
months on dnssec has been pretty amazing. dnsmasq-2.73 is now at rc9 I
think....


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From: Simon Kelley <simon at thekelleys.org.uk>
Date: Sun, Jun 7, 2015 at 1:53 AM
Subject: Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] dnssec-check-unsigned breaks linux.conf.au
To: dnsmasq-discuss at lists.thekelleys.org.uk


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On 07/06/15 09:06, Karl-Johan Karlsson wrote:
> On Sat 06 Jun 2015 23.16.42 Simon Kelley wrote:
>> Turns out that this domain has a "weird" by valid use of NSEC3
>> which broke dnsmasq's corner-case code.
>>
>> 2.73rc9 should fix it.
>
> Thanks, it looks like it works.
>
>

Good stuff.

A longer explanation (using NSEC because it's easier to understand,
NSEC3, which was used in this case, has the same principle but it less
obvious to understand.)


An NSEC record is a signed record that proves no names exist in a
certain alphabetic range

so

apple.example.com  NSEC cherry.example.com

proves that

bananna.example.com cannot exist.


If the next name is before the name of the NSEC, then it covers the
wrap-around region, so

cherry.example.com NSEC apple.example.com

proves there are no names after cherry, and no names before apple.


The tricky one is

apple.example.com NSEC apple.example.com

The obvious answer is that proves nothing, and that's what the dnsmasq
code calculated. In fact it's an instance of the wraparound case, and
proves that _only_ apple exists.

It's fun stuff, this DNSSEC.


Simon.


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