[Freeipa-users] DNSSEC warning when DNSSEC should be disabled

Martin Bašti mbasti at redhat.com
Wed Apr 19 13:23:56 UTC 2017


IPA servers always check if DNSSEC is working on forwarders, but it is 
just warning. If you have disabled  dnssec in named.conf then it is okay.

I'm not sure why sometimes you see this warning and sometimes don't, 
maybe inconsistent replies from forwarder.

domain ".internal" should always fail because it is unregistered TLD

Martin


On 19.04.2017 15:11, Dan Dietterich wrote:
>
> My configuration is a single ipa server and both the code path and the 
> bash prompt path are running on the node that is also running the ipa 
> server. I thought that since FreeIPA was installed with 
> --no-dnssec-validation that I should never see this warning. And I 
> confirmed that both dnssec-enabled and dnssec-validation are set to 
> 'no' in the /etc/named.conf.
>
> So I'm confused that you say the DNSSEC should always fail.
>
> Thanks for your help!
>
> *From: *Martin Bašti <mbasti at redhat.com>
> *Date: *Wednesday, April 19, 2017 at 3:59 AM
> *To: *Dan Dietterich <dan at cazena.com>, "freeipa-users at redhat.com" 
> <freeipa-users at redhat.com>
> *Subject: *Re: [Freeipa-users] DNSSEC warning when DNSSEC should be 
> disabled
>
> On 13.04.2017 22:50, Dan Dietterich wrote:
>
>     I am seeing inconsistent results configuring a DNS forward zone.
>
>     At a bash prompt, as root, after kinit admin, I do:
>
>     ipa dnsforwardzone-add domain.internal  --forwarder= ww.xx.yy.zz
>     --forward-policy=only
>
>     That works fine and does not warn about DNSSEC.
>
>     In a Java webapp running as root under a Jetty, I run a shell
>     sub-process and issue the kinit and the same ipa statement.
>
>     _/Sometimes/_, I get
>
>     ipa: WARNING: DNSSEC validation failed: record 'domain.internal.
>     SOA' failed DNSSEC validation on server ww.xx.yy.zz.
>
>     Please verify your DNSSEC configuration or disable DNSSEC
>     validation on all IPA servers.
>
>     I modified the /etc/named.conf file to say:
>
>     dnssec-enable no;
>
>     dnssec-validation no;
>
>     and systemctl restart ipa
>
>     Any clue why the results are different?
>
>     ipa –version: VERSION: 4.4.0, API_VERSION: 2.213
>
>     Linux … 3.10.0-514.10.2.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Mar 3 00:04:05 UTC
>     2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
>     Thanks for any insight!
>
>     Regards,
>
>     Dan
>
>
>
>
> Hello,
>
> checks are done on IPA server side, how many servers do you have? Is 
> possible that CLI connects to different servers.
>
> However in this case, DNSSEC check should always fail and report 
> error, so it is weird why it passed.
>
> Martin
>
> -- 
> Martin Bašti
> Software Engineer
> Red Hat Czech

-- 
Martin Bašti
Software Engineer
Red Hat Czech

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