On 02/09/15 03:22, Mark Andrews wrote:
> In message <[email protected]>, Matthias-Christian Ott writes:
>> Has this problem been addressed somewhere or is there an ongoing effort
>> that would address it?
> 
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-andrews-dnsop-update-parent-zones/
> 
> Provided a mechanism to do this which allowed fine grain access control
> base on tsig / sig(0) name.
> 
> It could also use SIG(0) instead of TSIG though the draft doesn't state
> that.

A variant of the mechanism proposed in the draft is certainly a simple
solution.

However, I don't think it will work in the current market. Most
registrars and nearly all of their customers have no interest in this
(ask a randomly selected registrar about DNSSEC and IPv6). So there is
no competitive advantage or incentive to implement it.

I looked at many registrars over the last weeks and found that their
proprietary APIs provided by most registrars are often incomplete and
low quality (some PHP script that translate SOAP or REST API calls to
EPP or a proprietary protocol of a registry) because they are developed
for resellers of the registrars who apparently don't care and have very
low requirements (often also only available to resellers).

It's hard to find DNS service providers that even offer TSIG for zone
transfers, most providers sadly authenticate zone transfers through IPv4
addresses.

Very recently I scraped the websites of ICANN and major European
registrars and tested whether the websites of several hundred registrars
are available over IPv6 and whether the corresponding zone is signed
with DNSSEC. Fewer than a dozen registrars worldwide fulfil this
criteria and fewer than a handful of registrars have an API that allows
you to change your NS RRs and DNSSEC keys.

So to sum it up: Registrars are very far behind and haven't even
implemented DNSSEC and IPv6. There are to too many registrars and most
of them have customers who simply do not care as long as their website
is somehow reachable over IPv4 and any additional service just means
wasted time for them. Asking them for an even less frequently used
feature is hopeless and pointless (its cheaper to become a registrar
yourself than to pay the registrar to implement this feature). I think
if there can be a solution it should not involve registrars. On the
other hand most registries also do not directly deal with registrants,
so I'm not sure who should implement the solution to this problem.

To prevent a longer discussion: I know that most statements and
observations that I made about are claims and except for the statistics
about DNSSEC and IPv6 deployment I have no evidence to back them up
other than the fact that I spent a considerable amount of time studying
the market.

- Matthias-Christian

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