[Unbound-users] DNSSEC validation by default?

Roy Arends roy at dnss.ec
Thu Aug 7 14:44:10 UTC 2008


On Aug 7, 2008, at 3:05 PM, Wouter Wijngaards wrote:

> * PGP Signed by an unverified key: 08/07/08 at 15:05:47
>
> Hi James,
>
> You are using an older version of Bind9 I think; since this was
> considered bad behaviour by Bind, and fixed in recent releases.
> It was fixed because some legacy boxes (adsl I think) did not like
> getting AD bits in their replies and crash or hang on it.
>
> If you just want to get an AD bit in the reply if its secure, set  
> the AD
> bit in the query to signal that you are ready and able to receive  
> the AD
> bit in the reply.
>
> That means getting your stub resolver to set 'AD' in queries.
>
> This has just been documented in the lastest dnssec-bis-updates  
> draft in
> the IETF dnsext working group.

Can we make that behavior configurable?

Roy
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