Dear dnssec-experts.

I recently have found a situation where an ISP is doing "incremental
rollout" of DNSSEC validation, by means of activating validation on
1 of its 3 resolvers for their customers.

Even when it could be a conservative way to help to test load and
behaviour for its resolvers, I'm in a discussion if this helps at
all at their customers. AFAIK every stub resolver in customer's appliances
would never be protected, because a stub receiving a SERVFAIL from the
validating resolver for a bogus record, would try with one of the others
two, which will deliver the "wrong" answer, cause they're not validating
at all. So, 1 of 3 is the same as none, from the customer side. The same
with 2. The only real protection will be all resolvers doing validation.

Can you confirm this? Is there any research or documentation on the
way stubs works that could clarify this issue?

Thanks and regards!

Hugo

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