DNSSEC and Geodns

[Nigel Jones]

Actually it does buy us some trust but as the roots aren't signed it's
fairly moot.

On 21/11/2009, Nigel Jones <dev at nigelj.com> wrote:
> At the moment? Nothing.
>
> On 21/11/2009, Mike McGrath <mmcgrath at redhat.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, 20 Nov 2009, Jeffrey Ollie wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 10:30 PM, Mike McGrath <mmcgrath at redhat.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> > On Fri, 20 Nov 2009, Jeffrey Ollie wrote:
>>> >
>>> >> On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 10:09 PM, Mike McGrath <mmcgrath at redhat.com>
>>> >> wrote:
>>> >> >
>>> >> > So, for example 'fedoraproject.org' wouldn't be signed, but
>>> >> > 'us.fedoraproject.org' would be?  I *think* that's possible but I
>>> >> > haven't
>>> >> > gotten it to work.  If I can get that to work though I guess that
>>> >> > makes
>>> >> > sense because A) it'd work for now and B) I'm sure over time pdns's
>>> >> > dnssec
>>> >> > will continue to mature.
>>> >>
>>> >> No, that wouldn't really work, because then you couldn't trust
>>> >> lookups
>>> >> from the fedoraproject.org zone, which would include delegations to
>>> >> the subdomains, the main website itself, MX records, etc.
>>> >>
>>> >
>>> > But if fedoraproject.org pointed to some place that wasn't signed or
>>> > was
>>> > signed incorrectly, wouldn't that fail?
>>>
>>> fedoraproject.org can't be a CNAME because it has other records like
>>> MX, NS, SOA, etc.  We'd have to switch to using
>>> 'www.fedoraproject.org' which could be a CNAME into an unsigned
>>> subzone.
>>>
>>> But then you'd still have the problem of relying on an unsigned zone
>>> serving up DNS data, eventually no one is going to trust it.
>>>
>>
>> At this very moment, what is dnssec buying us?
>>
>> 	-Mike
>
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