On Wed, 5 Aug 2020, Mark Andrews wrote:

Your key name usage is not consistent.  acmesh-ottawatch != ottawatch-acmesh

Thank you! Fixed and working.

Why are you adding `check-names warn;`?  check-names does NOT apply to TXT
records.

Previously I was getting the error "bad owner name (check-names)".

So a search for that error led me to this page
https://linux.m2osw.com/setting-bind-get-letsencrypt-wildcards-work-your-system-using-rfc-2136

which states

"The check-names option is required in case the name letsencrypt adds _acme-challenge to your list of known sub-domains. The underscore character is not liked by BIND9. This is because it is not part of the domain name specification. It is not allowed at all. By default BIND will generate an error and log it and skip over that entry entirely (i.e. it will not serve that zone at all, albeit all the other zones will work just fine.)

You can also set this parameter to ignore. In that case, no warning is emitted in your logs.

Here is the error you get ("bad owner name") when a name uses characters that are not supposed to be used in a domain name:

09-Feb-2019 03:02:31.988 general: error:
           /var/lib/bind/restarchitect.com.zone:31:
          _acme-challenge.restarchitect.com:
          bad owner name (check-names)

The check-names option is currently the only way to fix this problem (i.e. you can't use an escape for that one specific letter.)"

-----------------------------------

Is this incorrect? My same error went away when I added it. I certainly was not familar with the option earlier.

I am running BIND 9.16.5 from Ondřej's PPA for Ubuntu 18.04

That page's "Create and Setup an HMAC Key" uses dnssec-keygen to create the dynamic key, which I understand has been deprecated in newer versions. Is that correct? (as I mentioned, I used ddns-confgen.)


Thanks for full details.

Thank you for looking at them!

Often, preparing a complete help request helps me see something I am overlooking that is incorrect, so then I don't need to send a help plea and look like an idiot. Just not in this report, although an earlier version led me to seeing another problem, which was good.

Brett




Mark

On 5 Aug 2020, at 08:44, Brett Delmage <br...@brettdelmage.ca> wrote:

I'm having a problem getting nsupdate to work, as shown below.

(Despite reading the man pages I'm not 100% clear about the exact scope of the 
grant options and it may not be right. Examples would be helpful.)

I generated the key:

ddns-confgen -k acmesh-ottawatch. -z ottawatch.ca
# To activate this key, place the following in named.conf, and
# in a separate keyfile on the system or systems from which nsupdate
# will be run:
key "acmesh-ottawatch." {
       algorithm hmac-sha256;
       secret <deleted>;
};

- this is included in my named.conf
My config file zone entry has the statements

check-names warn;
update-policy {  grant ottawatch-acmesh. name _acme-challenge.ottawatch.ca. 
txt;  };
to permit the update and limit the scope.

As I understand, I need check-names (warn | ignore) because _acme-challenge has 
an underscore. (How the heck did LE come up with an incompatible name?)


Here's my nsupdate script:
# cat test-acme

server cacloud.ottawatch.ca
zone ottawatch.ca
debug
update add _acme-challenge.ottawatch.ca. 999 TXT "test 1"
send


# nsupdate -k acmesh-ottawatch.ca test-acme

Sending update to 2607:7b00:7200:1::281a:5de2#53
Outgoing update query:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: UPDATE, status: NOERROR, id:  42504
;; flags:; ZONE: 1, PREREQ: 0, UPDATE: 1, ADDITIONAL: 1
;; ZONE SECTION:
;ottawatch.ca.                  IN      SOA

;; UPDATE SECTION:
_acme-challenge.ottawatch.ca. 999 IN    TXT     "test 1"

;; TSIG PSEUDOSECTION:
acmesh-ottawatch.       0       ANY     TSIG    hmac-sha256. 1596580550 300 32 
966kN1nqxXRP+smNYmqpGKUIepEV0gkuOVz42ywCY0g= 42504 NOERROR 0


Reply from update query:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: UPDATE, status: REFUSED, id:  42504
;; flags: qr; ZONE: 1, PREREQ: 0, UPDATE: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1
;; ZONE SECTION:
;ottawatch.ca.                  IN      SOA

;; TSIG PSEUDOSECTION:
acmesh-ottawatch.       0       ANY     TSIG    hmac-sha256. 1596580550 300 32 
eqUVlwgfwGnW0B7UX+WaB4mgqMgh9Aia/YauLRLa054= 42504 NOERROR 0

Sending update to 2607:7b00:7200:1::281a:5de2#53
Outgoing update query:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: UPDATE, status: NOERROR, id:  32884
;; flags:; ZONE: 1, PREREQ: 0, UPDATE: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1
;; ZONE SECTION:
;ottawatch.ca.                  IN      SOA

;; TSIG PSEUDOSECTION:
acmesh-ottawatch.       0       ANY     TSIG    hmac-sha256. 1596580550 300 32 
M+Lr8IckyEVknrX+jHoDQYFrlGxzyQ/PYHX9WwpNBZw= 32884 NOERROR 0



# dig _acme-challenge.ottawatch.ca. txt
- the TXT RR has not been added

; <<>> DiG 9.16.5-Ubuntu <<>> _acme-challenge.ottawatch.ca. txt
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 45640
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4096
; COOKIE: f735fda5ecb94793010000005f29e1bed617055d59cb5d75 (good)
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;_acme-challenge.ottawatch.ca.  IN      TXT

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
ottawatch.ca.           900     IN      SOA     cacloud.ottawatch.ca. 
hostmaster.ottawatch.ca. 2020072912 900 180 2419200 900

;; Query time: 0 msec
;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1)
;; WHEN: Tue Aug 04 18:31:26 EDT 2020
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 140


What am I missing ort doing wrong, please?
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