srose> Should there be text describing auto-adding of NTA's based on
srose> important domains (for the ISP/resolver's definition of
srose> important)?  So that domains that are used by low level services
srose> don't fail that also aren't normally visible to end users?  One
srose> example is nist.gov. When nist.gov messed up and went DNSSEC
srose> BOGUS, time.nist.gov was unreachable by validating resolvers.

warren> Sorry, but to me this sounds like a bad idea -- you should find
warren> out that you "not normally visible to end users" failures are
warren> happening because your network monitoring system goes "Beep Beep
warren> Beep" when low level important services die.  The NOC then goes
warren> off and investigates and discovers that e.g the NTP monitor it
warren> sad because time.nist.gov is unresolvable.

warren> At this point there really needs to be a *human* in the loop to
warren> decide what to do, if the failure really *is* a DNSSEC failure
warren> and, more importantly, if installing an NTA is the right answer.

I'd hope it would be good operational sense for folks to have automated
checks of critical things and checks of DNS logs for DNSSEC validation
failures and that we shouldn't have to spell that out.

But do we want to at least have a mention of doing such kinds of checks
as a better way of noticing DNSSEC failures than pissed off customers or
puzzled NOC folks?

I do agree that we should not be inserting NTAs automatically for
anything.

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