Hi.

Responses below (Peter or Bert, correct me if I'm wrong or not clear enough)

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José Arthur Benetasso Villanova

On 12/04/2012, at 22:44, PARTH MONGA <[email protected]> wrote:

> HI Friends
>
> I am new to PowerDNS and DNSSEC and i am in the installation stage of it for 
> my organisation moving from BIND, planned to take over 5 lakh+ domains on it 
> with dnssec enabled
> Details of the setup:
> 9 nodes mysql cluster Geographically distributed:will be using mysql as a 
> backend and replication will be taken care by mysql
> Each PDNS running local copy of mysql
> PowerDNS version 3.0.1
> Poweradmin as gui interface
>
> Have following queries:
>
> 1-Can i have secured(DNSSEC) and unsecured zones(NORMAL ZONES) both in one 
> PowerDNS Server having mysql as backend?
>
Yes. You should sign the zone using 'pdnssec secure-zone example.com'
or leave as is to not use dnssec. Please make sure that the auth field
in table records is set properly.

> 2-When it is advised to roll over the keys in DNSSEC secured zones.DO i have 
> to roll over the keys each time when i make changes to a secured zone 
> data(like changing A records or Mx Records) or it will be automatically taken 
> care by PDNS.Please elaborate this key roll over mechanism,a lot of confusion 
> is there..

Taken from the manual:

"PowerDNS supports serving pre-signed zones, as well as online
('live') signed operations. In the last case, Signature Rollover and
Key Maintenance are fully managed by PowerDNS."

When you add / remove records, you need to call 'pdnssec rectify-zone
example.com' to make sure that the records orders are set properly.
This is important to use NSEC, that need the record before and after
to give a signed denial of existence. As far I remember, the field
content is not use in NSEC, so you can change this at will.
>
> 3-What decides when to go for NSEC or NSEC3.Please elaborate will be a great 
> tip for all the list users.

NSEC3 mitigate the zone listing issue, so I think that is a better
option. There is a pdns exclusive option called 'narrow', please read
the docs about it.

> 4-What is the NATIVE word in zone type.I understand master and slave,What 
> NATIVE refers to.

NATIVE replication means any kind of replication outside DNS, like
database replication (my preferred). By your description, that's the
one you'll use.
>
> Will be posting a complete setup document once my PowerDns Cluster is up and 
> running so all other list members as well as community can refer to 
> it,Provided i get successful
> Wishful thinking :)
>
> Thanks & Regards
> Best Wishes
> Parth
>
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