Question related to RFC 5011 ("Automated Updates...")

Wed Jul 19 18:58:23 UTC 2017

Hi Ed,

It counts the number of times the key was seen in a probe.  This count
has to be bigger than 2 (or equal to) for the key to be accepted.  This
is from RFC5011 rules.

Best regards, Wouter

On 19/07/17 18:10, Edward Lewis via Unbound-users wrote:
> Where I track the root zone trust anchor points (for me root.key), I see this:
> 
> .	172800	IN	DNSKEY	257 3 8 AwEAAaz/tAm8yTn4Mfeh5eyI96WSVexTBAvkMgJzkKTOiW1vkIbzxeF3+/4RgWOq7HrxRixHlFlExOLAJr5emLvN7SWXgnLh4+B5xQlNVz8Og8kvArMtNROxVQuCaSnIDdD5LKyWbRd2n9WGe2R8PzgCmr3EgVLrjyBxWezF0jLHwVN8efS3rCj/EWgvIWgb9tarpVUDK/b58Da+sqqls3eNbuv7pr+eoZG+SrDK6nWeL3c6H5Apxz7LjVc1uTIdsIXxuOLYA4/ilBmSVIzuDWfdRUfhHdY6+cn8HFRm+2hM8AnXGXws9555KrUB5qihylGa8subX2Nn6UwNR1AkUTV74bU= ;{id = 20326 (ksk), size = 2048b} ;;state=1 [ ADDPEND ] ;;count=17 ;;lastchange=1499810300 ;;Tue Jul 11 17:58:20 2017
> 
> My question is - what is the "count" counting?
> 
> The established key as a count of 0:
> 
> .	172800	IN	DNSKEY	257 3 8 AwEAAagAIKlVZrpC6Ia7gEzahOR+9W29euxhJhVVLOyQbSEW0O8gcCjFFVQUTf6v58fLjwBd0YI0EzrAcQqBGCzh/RStIoO8g0NfnfL2MTJRkxoXbfDaUeVPQuYEhg37NZWAJQ9VnMVDxP/VHL496M/QZxkjf5/Efucp2gaDX6RS6CXpoY68LsvPVjR0ZSwzz1apAzvN9dlzEheX7ICJBBtuA6G3LQpzW5hOA2hzCTMjJPJ8LbqF6dsV6DoBQzgul0sGIcGOYl7OyQdXfZ57relSQageu+ipAdTTJ25AsRTAoub8ONGcLmqrAmRLKBP1dfwhYB4N7knNnulqQxA+Uk1ihz0= ;{id = 19036 (ksk), size = 2048b} ;;state=2 [  VALID  ] ;;count=0 ;;lastchange=1459820836 ;;Mon Apr  4 21:47:16 2016
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