[Unbound-users] [DNSSEC] Resolver behavior with broken DS records

W.C.A. Wijngaards wouter at NLnetLabs.nl
Mon May 9 10:27:38 UTC 2011


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On 05/07/2011 10:13 AM, W.C.A. Wijngaards wrote:
> On 05/06/2011 04:09 PM, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
>> In an (involuntary) experiment under .FR, I discovered that the rule
>> "at least one DS must match for a child zone to be authenticated" is
>> wrong if a broken DS is present. In our case, the field Algorithm in
>> the DS did not match the one in the DNSKEY. While there was another
>> correct DS for the child zone, Unbound 1.4.6 servfails. So, the
>> incorrect DS made the child zone bogus.
> 
> This should not happen, can you send me details, the DS records involved
> (and perhaps the DNSKEY records) ?  They are of the same algorithm, I
> assume?

Stephane sent me details off-list.  Turns out to be the RFC4509 rules
that unbound follows, that intends to avoid downgrade attacks.  Here it
caused a failure though one record was correct.

Best regards,
   Wouter
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